2017 NFL Power Rankings: Los Angeles Rams Enter Offseason Near Bottom

5. Green Bay Packers

Give the Green Bay Packers for almost puling the unthinkable by running the table to win the Super Bowl when all hope seemed lost in the middle of the season. It’s not an easy task to win the final six games of the regular season just to get into the playoffs despite numerous injuries on both sides of the football, but the Packers found a way to do so, and even came close to representing the NFC in this year’s Super Bowl.

Even if they simply ran out of gas, and were embarrassed by the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship game, at least the Packers will be remembered for taking down the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional Round of the playoffs. The fact that Green Bay found a way to make it as far as they did in the playoffs despite not having a real running game due to injuries was simply amazing to witness, and with key players like Eddie Lacy hopefully returning to full strength, this team seems like the early favorites to win the NFC North for the second year in a row.

Plus, with the way their dreams of reaching the Super Bowl were shattered in Atlanta, there’s no question the determination of Aaron Rodgers will be at a whole new level. He of all players realizes how close the Packers were to almost pulling off what would have been one of the greatest Super Bowl runs in history against all odds, and Rodgers now has an entire offseason to think about it.