Steelers, Cowboys, 49ers: Power ranking the top-ten NFL defences

In the latest of our NFL power ranking articles, we take a look at who we believe are going to be the top defences heading into the 2022 season.

The old saying in the game is that offence wins games, but defence wins championships. Across the history of the NFL, there have always been those teams that have won a title off the back of a strong defence. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s had the Steel Curtain, the Seattle Seahawks became a force in the league off the back of the Legion of Boom, and arguably the greatest of all time were the 1985 Chicago Bears, simply called ‘The 85 Bears’. 

And whilst the NFL is predominantly an offence-orientated league based off the back of some incredible quarterbacks, there are still some top-notch defences that have the power to disrupt anyone and anything that tries to get in their way.

But just who are the best of the best heading into the 2022 NFL season? We at GiveMeSport have gone through the stats from last year, looked at who the teams have added and got rid of, and come up with who we think are the top 10 defences heading into this upcoming season:

This might be a bit of a surprise as they are starting from a pretty low standard compared to where they were last year, where they gave up 6,272 yards in total, which ranked 27th in the league overall, but there has been a lot of turnover in terms of personnel that we think are for the better.

The addition of youngsters like edge rusher George Karlaftis and cornerback Trent McDuffie as well as veteran Carlos Dunlap have the potential to give the defensive unit a big boost and as a result take some of the pressure off of Patrick Mahomes so that he doesn’t have to always be the hero and have to win in a shootout every week. 

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