{"id":13515,"date":"2025-07-16T06:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13515\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T06:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:16:05","slug":"nfls-top-10-defenses-in-2025-broncos-edge-out-eagles-and-ravens-for-no-1-spot-patriots-will-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13515\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL&#8217;s top 10 defenses in 2025? Broncos edge out Eagles and Ravens for No. 1 spot; Patriots will rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-s-top-10-offenses-in-2025-bills-bucs-ravens-headline-my-projection-broncos-coming-in-hot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I projected the top 10 offenses<\/a> for the 2025 NFL campaign. A month later, it&#8217;s time to shift prognostic focus to the other side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>For the offensive rankings, I looked to answer one straightforward question: Who will score the most points in 2025? Naturally, this defensive rundown aims to infer the opposite: Who will give up the fewest points in 2025? Now, there is one important caveat \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Traditional scoring defense catalogues the total number of points allowed by each team, including scores yielded by the offense (pick-six, fumble-six, safety) and special teams (return touchdown). Seeing how the objective of this file is to establish a defensive hierarchy, I&#8217;m refining the prompt to a more direct question:<\/p>\n<p>Who will give up the fewest points in 2025 when the defense is on the field?<\/p>\n<p>Basically, true scoring defense. For reference, let&#8217;s recap last season&#8217;s 10 stingiest units by that criterion.<\/p>\n<p>10) Miami Dolphins: 345 total points allowed (20.3 per game)<\/p>\n<p>9) Seattle Seahawks: 344 (20.2)<\/p>\n<p>8) Detroit Lions: 334 (19.6)<\/p>\n<p>7) Pittsburgh Steelers: 333 (19.6)<\/p>\n<p>6) Kansas City Chiefs: 326 (19.2)<\/p>\n<p>5) Minnesota Vikings: 323 (19.0)<\/p>\n<p>4) Green Bay Packers: 318 (18.7)<\/p>\n<p>3) Denver Broncos: 311 (18.3)<\/p>\n<p>2) Los Angeles Chargers: 299 (17.6)<\/p>\n<p>1) Philadelphia Eagles: 288 (16.9)<\/p>\n<p>Which teams will fill those slots in 2025? Well, defenses typically fluctuate more than offenses from year to year, so it isn&#8217;t necessarily shocking that two of the top four teams from above don&#8217;t even make the list below. Or maybe I&#8217;m just an idiot. Regardless, here is my forecast, in countdown form.<\/p>\n<p>JUST MISSED: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In June, I projected the top 10 offenses for the 2025 NFL campaign. A month later, it&#8217;s time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4687,8849,7820,1810,4058,1236,8851,1815,349,6257,1239,1321,8852,99],"class_list":["post-13515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-analysis","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-houston-texans","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}