FMIA: Peter King’s Offseason Power Rankings; Carolina and Green Bay’s QB Strategies

For the NFL, it’s been three months full of news. Really, a (mostly) tremendous start to 2023 for a league that manufactures news cycles, even in the off-season. A 38-35 Super Bowl with the re-coronation of Patrick Mahomes and the emergence of a new 24-year-old superstar, Jalen Hurts. The Super Bowl, with the third-biggest audience in TV history. Aaron Rodgers, caped crusader, flying in to save the Jets—at great, great cost. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens making a five-year peace treaty. A short quarterback, Bryce Young, perhaps forever changing how we look at short quarterbacks by being the first pick in the draft.

There are scars, and potentially big ones. The nightmare of Dan Snyder’s ownership moving toward a sale in Washington might drag on; his divorce with the league continues to be exceedingly ugly. On Thursday, attorneys general in New York and California opened a joint investigation into a hostile work environment and discrimination against female NFL employees. This follows a New York Times investigation with disturbing allegations, particularly by one former NFL Network VP who said the league never addressed her claims of “pervasive sexism in the workplace,” per the Times. I’ve heard the league is concerned about the investigation, as it should be, and what the AGs could learn.

No matter the news off the field, though, the game looks unassailable, at least to its fans, 11 weeks before the start of training camps and the new season.

The last NFL TV event before training camps open in late July, the release of the schedule, is nigh. What we know this morning:

Boldface names and things with the draft in the rear-view:

Detroit might be the surprise team in my annual 1 to 32 spring team rankings. Which, by the way,