The 2025 NFL season will be here before you know it. It starts with training camps in July and the Hall of Fame Game on July 31. As anticipation builds, catch up on everything you need to know with Frank Schwab’s team previews countdown.

A new preview will drop every weekday (except July 4) as we get closer to the Detroit Lions facing the Los Angeles Chargers in Canton, Ohio. Who will be No. 1 going into the season? Where will your team rank? Here’s your guide for all the answers. Click on below to jump to that team, then click on the team name to read the full preview.

No. 32 Titans

No. 31 Saints

No. 30 Browns

No. 29 Panthers

No. 28 Jets

No. 27 Giants

No. 26 Raiders

A 3-14 season was a wake-up call. The Tennessee Titans not only fell to the bottom of the NFL, they slid deep into obscurity. Tennessee was truly awful but other than regular Will Levis memes and first-year head coach Brian Callahan’s outward hostility toward Levis, nobody cared. They had no identity, no marketable star, a decayed roster and only one hope for the future.

That hope was the first pick of the draft. The Titans could have traded that pick or taken Travis Hunter or Abdul Carter, but they knew the best path back to relevance was hitting on a pick at quarterback. That’s why Cam Ward, who set an NCAA record with 158 touchdown passes at Incarnate Word, Washington State and then Miami, is a Titan.

There’s a long way to go and Ward won’t fix all of that. There were a few bright spots on the roster — Jeffery Simmons is a star on the defensive line, 2024 rookies DT T’Vondre Sweat and CB Jarvis Brownlee Jr. had promising debuts, Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley had 1,000-yard seasons in a bad situation — but rebuilding will take a while. If Ward hits, at least that’s a start.

The plan for the Saints always seemed to be that when Drew Brees retired, there would be a total teardown. That really didn’t happen. It still hasn’t happened four years after Brees’ last game. The Saints weren’t recklessly aggressive as usual this offseason, but didn’t blow things up and didn’t make moves that would indicate they have the self awareness to know they should be in a rebuild. They still have a terrible 2026 cap situation and one of the oldest rosters in the NFL. Even a brutal 15-game stretch to end the season didn’t force them into facing reality.

Maybe it needs to get even worse for the Saints to realize they’re at rock bottom. And it might. Kellen Moore is a rookie head coach and he does not step into a good situation. Derek Carr retired and while he wasn’t great for New Orleans, the remaining quarterback solution is probably second-round pick Tyler Shough, a curious pick for a fading team considering he’ll turn 26 years old in September. The surrounding cast has some recognizable names who have had good careers but is short on stars who are still in their prime. The Saints’ only blue-chip player under 28 years old might be receiver Chris Olave, but he hasn’t played a full season in the NFL due to four confirmed concussions.

New Orleans has reached a point in which a horrific season is the best outcome. It would be a wake-up call and perhaps lead to a franchise-changing quarterback. Like the first two games last season, the Saints’ idea that they can turn things around doing things the same old way seems to be nothing but a mirage.

The Cleveland Browns were the last to know that Deshaun Watson was one of the NFL’s worst quarterbacks. It had to be cathartic for Browns fans to hear owner Jimmy Haslam say the team “took a big swing and miss with Deshaun.” Everyone else knew that long ago. The Browns were in deep denial.

A key decision at the top of the draft was the unofficial start of reshaping the roster. The Browns passed on the chance to draft Travis Hunter second overall to get a huge haul from the Jacksonville Jaguars in a trade. It included the fifth overall pick and the Jags’ first-round pick next year. It had to be hard to give up Hunter, but it was probably the right move.

The big part of the rebuild will be figuring out quarterback, and the Browns are taking a shotgun approach to it this year. They have four relatively low-cost quarterbacks and are praying one is the answer. Joe Flacco is the 40-year-old stopgap, Kenny Pickett is the reclamation project, Dillon Gabriel was the rookie the Browns drafted proactively in the third round, and Shedeur Sanders is the fifth-round pick everyone wants to talk about. If Sanders climbs up from fourth on the depth chart and starts any games this season, the Browns suddenly will become one of the most watched teams in the league.

The process starts over. Hopefully for Cleveland it’s not as long and difficult as the last one, and with some positive results this time.

After being benched earlier in the season, Bryce Young got another shot to start in Week 8 and looked like a new player. He might not have played to the level you’d dream of for a first overall pick, but he was much better. By the time he put up 251 yards and three touchdowns (one of which he finished with a confident look-away celebration with the ball in the air) in a season-ending win at the Atlanta Falcons, it seemed like a new world from the depressing low of benching a first overall pick two weeks into the season.

“I think we’ve got our QB here,” Panthers owner David Tepper told NFL Media’s Cameron Wolfe after that win.

The Panthers still have a long way to go. The defense gave up more points than any other team in NFL history and, while there were some offseason fixes, it’ll take at least another offseason to get it to a respectable level. Young made strides but he’ll need to show more improvement to live up to what the Panthers invested in him. Drafting receiver Tetairoa McMillan eighth overall should help Young.

Nobody should be confusing the Panthers with a contender just because they played better late in the season with an emerging quarterback. But there’s hope. It has been a while since that was the case.

Aaron Glenn seems to be a good hire to lead the rebuild. The new Jets head coach has already done well handling a tough market and also an uncomfortable Aaron Rodgers situation. Rodgers felt put out when he flew across the country to meet with the Jets, just to be greeted with a no-nonsense 15-minute meeting. Glenn and new Jets general manager Darren Mougey told Rodgers they were moving on and didn’t ask for Rodgers’ input on the direction of the franchise, which Rodgers thought he’d provide. Glenn and Mougey didn’t want to hear it. The meeting was short, sweet and to the point. Plenty of fans probably appreciated the new Jets brass after that story, especially after dealing with plenty of Rodgers drama and the franchise bending over backward for him.

Justin Fields is the next quarterback, a fairly low-cost gamble that the Jets can easily move on from if it doesn’t work out. The Jets have plenty of talented players, which was the reason they had hopes for a big season last year if Rodgers was simply an average quarterback. The Jets have a miserable ownership situation with Woody Johnson, and that will be a constant obstacle, but there are some seeds of optimism.

There were major organizational failures that led to the Jets somehow going from 7-10 with Zach Wilson at quarterback to 5-12 with Rodgers playing much better than Wilson ever did. Mougey and Glenn are in charge of changing that, though they’re far from the first group to try in this miserable era of Jets football. Rodgers was supposed to break the Jets’ streak of not making the playoffs, but it’s alive at 14 seasons. And the worst part of coming up woefully short after that big move is the Jets might shift back near square one.

The tone for this season all about whether head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen can survive again.

Jaxson Dart is the best path to showing progress. Dart is an interesting first-round pick out of Ole Miss. He will take some time to learn an NFL offense, but he has enticing skills. Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston were signed before Dart was picked, and presumably Wilson will begin the season as the starter. If the Giants aren’t much better than last season, the biggest question will be when to give Dart a shot. The reality is that decision will be made by a coach and general manager who are in self-preservation mode. Whatever is best for their survival will play a role in that decision.

The Giants have a really good defensive line, a secondary that has gotten an influx of talent, a future star in receiver Malik Nabers and not much else. There’s still a long way to go before the Giants are contenders again. Daboll and Schoen need some results this season to stick around for those better days.

The Raiders are one of the NFL franchises on a never-ending road to nowhere. Over the past 22 seasons, the Raiders have had 13 head coaches and two playoff appearances.

Pete Carroll becomes the Raiders’ 14th head coach since their last playoff win, which came Jan. 19, 2003. It is odd for the rebuilding Raiders to hire a coach who will turn 74 years old in September — when the season starts Carroll will break the record as the oldest head coach in NFL history — but given team owner Mark Davis’ ineptitude at picking the right coach, at least he got someone with a winning history.

At least the Raiders have potential stars to build around. Crosby is one of the best defensive players in the NFL. Brock Bowers is coming off the best season for a rookie tight end in NFL history. Ashton Jeanty is one of the best running back prospects in many years, and the rebuilding Raiders thought he was worth the sixth pick of the draft. Geno Smith isn’t a star, but when the Raiders traded for him from the Seattle Seahawks they upgraded from what might have been the worst quarterback situation in the NFL.

Rebuilds usually take a while, and presumably the Raiders believe a coach who will turn 74 this season and a quarterback who will turn 35 will help establish a culture that can be carried on down the road. That wouldn’t be the worst outcome. Anything to get the Raiders moving in a positive direction would be a nice change.

No. 25: To be revealed on Wednesday