A shakeup not seen in a decade is taking over NFL standings

Some NFL seasons are remembered for dominant teams.

Some NFL seasons are remembered for dominant teams. Others, for superlative players.

The 2025 season will be remembered for the carnage.

With four weeks to play in the regular season, chances are good that your most ardently held preseason beliefs have been proved wrong — because the NFL is currently undergoing a standings shake-up not seen in more than a decade.

Seven of the NFL’s eight divisions enter Week 15 with a team either in first place outright or tied for first that didn’t win the division last year. To say such turnover at the top of a division is unusual is an understatement.

Since the NFL realigned its teams in 2002, there has only been one season (2011) that crowned seven new division winners, according to NBC Sports research.