2019 NFL Preview Week

The 8 NFL Sleepers Heading in the Right Direction in 2019

Our NFL season preview of all 32 teams continues, with 8 teams set to surprise everyone in 2019…

NFL SEASON PREVIEW WEEK HAS REACHED THE SLEEPERS, eight overlooked teams ready to take a step forward in 2019. We already ruled out the eight worst teams in the league and dumped on eight more moving in the wrong direction. Now it’s time to get hyped about eight teams ready to take a serious step forward in a league of parity and constant change.

No team on this list won more than eight games in 2018. Together they won 47 games and lost 80, and they all finished in the bottom half of the division. But this year, things are looking up! I’ve already written about a couple of these teams looking for this year’s worst-to-first division winner, and two or three of these sleepers should even make the 2019–20 playoffs.

Last year’s sleepers included the Bears, Browns, and Texans. The Browns improved from 0 to 7 wins. The Texans leapt from 4 wins to 11 and won the AFC South. The Bears jumped from 5–11 to 12–4 and won the NFC North as the league’s breakout sleeper. Every big 2018 sleeper hit made our list.

Remember, this isn’t a power rankings. Yesterday’s overrated Chargers and Bears are not worse than some of these teams, but they’re all stuck in the middle together, and at least they’re all ahead of the eight bottom feeders.