Week 15 NFL Power Rankings

Eddie Lacy

29. Oakland Raiders (LW: 32)

Entering Week 15, one of the following two teams — 49ers and Raiders — have played 2-1 football in its last three weeks, while the other has dropped two of three. That’s right, like everyone in America would have easily predicted, the previously 0-10 Oakland Raiders are winning two-thirds of their contests since Week 12. In reality, Oakland hosted games against arguably its two biggest rivals and came out on top in both. In the National Football League, situations like that are bound to happen, but it speaks more to the Raiders’ opponents falling asleep than it does any Oakland breakthrough.

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