{"id":847191,"date":"2026-09-14T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:48:10","slug":"nfl-week-1-grades-for-all-32-teams-ravens-roll-to-an-a-bills-earn-high-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847191\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 grades for all 32 teams: Ravens roll to an &#8216;A-,&#8217; Bills earn high mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Week 1 grades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The start of the 2026 season is here, and like we do every year, we&#8217;re going to be grading every game that&#8217;s played between now and January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first week of the season always seems to get a little crazy, and this year was no exception. In the early games on Sunday, we saw the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NO\/new-orleans-saints\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saints<\/a> claw back from a 21-0 deficit to force overtime against the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/DET\/detroit-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a>, only to lose on a two-point conversion attempt. We also saw the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/CHI\/chicago-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bears<\/a> and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/CAR\/carolina-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Panthers<\/a> make <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL<\/a> history by combining for 96 points, the highest total ever in a Week 1 game (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/bears-panthers-final-score-scorigami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">and a Scoragami!<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then there was the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/CLE\/cleveland-browns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browns<\/a>, who lost to the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/JAC\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars<\/a> 34-10. OK, that one wasn&#8217;t crazy, because as you may or may not have noticed, the Browns almost never win in Week 1. Since returning to the NFL in 1999, the Browns are now 3-24-1 in the opening week of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Browns never came close to pulling off the upset, but there is one team that pulled off a massive upset in Week 1: The Arizona Cardinals. The Cards were the biggest underdog of the opening week at +9.5, but they still managed to go into Los Angeles and pull of a total shocker with a 26-14 win over the Chargers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the biggest shock of Week 1 might have been the fact that that Jets and Giants BOTH won, marking the first time since 2009 that both teams won their opener in the same season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of big wins, one of the biggest victories in Week 1 came in Houston, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/bills-texans-josh-allen-c-j-stroud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Allen won on the road against the Texans for the first time<\/a>. That&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going to start our Week 1 grades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: More grades will be added as games finish.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo 36-31 over Houston\u00a0N.Y. Giants 28-20 over DallasArizona 26-14 L.A. ChargersMinnesota 39-22 over Green BayPhiladelphia 24-22 over WashingtonLas Vegas 27-13 over MiamiCincinnati 33-27 over Tampa BayDetroit 31-30 over New Orleans in OTN.Y. Jets 23-10 over TennesseeBaltimore 41-23 over Indianapolis\u00a0Pittsburgh 20-13 over AtlantaChicago 59-37 over CarolinaJacksonville 34-10 over ClevelandSan Francisco 27-7 over L.A. Rams (Thursday)Seattle 13-10 over New England (Wednesday)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Week 1 grades.\u00a0 The start of the 2026 season is here, and like we do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1829,1327,1802,8849,19419,15353,35215,1819,15354,1807,6256,14354,14389,3687,8850,6258,1822,1799,66380,15946,31102,358403,20021,4057,1810,84806,1826,173120,5701,14387,4058,3686,1811,27558,84895,50490,95922,1808,1817,118580,241154,1236,69178,14382,1820,1833,46828,14383,1815,1814,5702,349,358402,14040,119507,118379,1321,15357,560,8852,99,3793,1824,8853,1805,358404,20468,3851,358401,35299],"class_list":["post-847191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-baker-mayfield","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-ben-johnson","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-breece-hall","tag-brock-purdy","tag-bryce-young","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-c-j-stroud","tag-caleb-williams","tag-cam-ward","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chris-olave","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-dandre-swift","tag-daniel-jones","tag-deebo-samuel","tag-demetrius-knight-jr","tag-derrick-henry","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-detroit-lions","tag-dj-moore","tag-drake-maye","tag-drew-lock","tag-garrett-wilson","tag-geno-smith","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jahmyr-gibbs","tag-jalen-coker","tag-jaquan-brisker","tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","tag-joe-burrow","tag-josh-allen","tag-josh-palmer","tag-josiah-trotter","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kyle-monangai","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-mike-evans","tag-myles-garrett","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-grades-week-1","tag-nick-emmanwori","tag-nick-folk","tag-parker-washington","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sam-darnold","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-t-j-watt","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-trevor-lawrence","tag-ty-okada","tag-tyler-shough","tag-washington-commanders","tag-week-1-grades","tag-zay-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847191","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=847191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}