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Power Rankings · 2026

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Week 9 Power Rankings: 9-0 and Ruthless, While Two Benches Just Lost Two Winnable Games

Karen Williams is 9-0 and somehow still finding another gear — down 7.85 points entering the Sunday early games, they turned around and buried Liberal Agenda by 34.13 anyway. Two different coaching staffs managed to lose games they'd already won on paper: ThatH0nkyTonk McConkeyD0nk and Clankers With a Hard R both left more points on the bench than the margin they lost by. K-9 UNIT put a 60.56-point mercy rule on Secretary of War's league-worst 89.39, and Liberal Agenda got news no scoreboard can show — Michael Wilson is done for the season. These are still week 9's provisional numbers; stat corrections can nudge things before they're final.

Commissioner edition · published Tuesday Nov 10, 9:14 a.m. ET · the math sets the order, the commissioner may move a team up to 3 spots for roster news the math cannot see, and any override is noted on the row. How the rankings work →

  1. 1Karen Williams Conner Mitchell· Karen Williams stayed perfect at 9-0, trailing Liberal Agenda 17.0–9.15 entering the Sunday early games and still walking away with a 153.58–119.45 win — a 34.13-point beatdown and the week's top score. An 88.44-point Sunday late window (65.14 to 153.58) did the real damage, the kind of number that makes a 7.85-point deficit feel like a formality. Conner Mitchell still left 13.52 points on the bench — Blake Corum (12.8), the 49ers D/ST (21.0) and Khalil Shakir (10.8) all sat — but when you're 9-0 you can afford some sloppy lineup math. The injury sheet is almost entirely bench clutter: Deshaun Watson sat out Cleveland's overtime loss to the Saints behind Shedeur Sanders, but the Browns are already planning to start him again against Houston, while Tank Bigsby (abdominal surgery) remains on IR and Tyreek Hill remains unsigned. None of it has touched this roster's actual production all year, and nothing this week changes that.
  2. 2Tu Puka Madre Jose Velez Capin▲4 Tu Puka Madre scored 92.35 points in the Sunday early games alone — 0.0 to 92.35 — on the way to beating Clankers With a Hard R 149.86–130.56, a 19.3-point win and a third straight to push Jose Velez Capin to 5-4. The lineup card was nearly flawless, just 3.58 points left on the bench, with Bryce Young's 25.09 sitting behind a Drake Maye who still threw for 21.51 anyway. The health news is bench-only: Brian Robinson Jr. remains on IR after hamstring surgery with Dec. 13 his earliest return, and Puka Nacua — already a scratch — is now expected to land on IR himself with a PCL/MCL sprain and turf toe. Neither has touched this roster's actual scoring in weeks, so the real cost lands on the Rams and Falcons, not this record. Three straight wins, and the lineup card says this team knows exactly what it's doing.
  3. 3Clankers With a Hard R Will Mason▼1 Clankers With a Hard R got embarrassed by their own bench, losing 130.56–149.86 to Tu Puka Madre — a 19.3-point defeat with 36.46 points rotting on the sideline, and the optimal lineup, 167.02, wins this one going away. Will Mason benched KC Concepcion (20.55), C.J. Stroud (41.61) and Seth McGowan (11.95), which is about as dogshit a lineup card as you can turn in, snapping a two-game win streak and dropping to 6-3. A 74.74-point Sunday late window (43.22 to 117.96) nearly bailed the whole thing out anyway, which says more about this roster's ceiling than the loss does. On health: Brandon Aiyuk was reinstated from the reserve/left-squad list with a two-week roster exemption, but that's paperwork, not snaps; De'Zhaun Stribling remains on IR targeting a December return; and Rhamondre Stevenson's knee tendon issue is reportedly worth only "a short period of time." None of it touched this week's box score — this one was lost entirely at the lineup card.
  4. 4Diggs Spears Bass Jason Moyer▼1 Diggs Spears Bass beat Club Shambles 140.66–101.34, a 39.32-point win and a third straight, keyed by a 74.24-point Sunday early window that went 0.0 to 74.24 before most of the league had gotten out of bed. Jason Moyer's lineup card stayed clean — only 4.05 points left on the bench, with Xavier Hutchinson's 12.4 sitting behind a Stefon Diggs who still chipped in 8.35 — and the win pushes this team to 7-2. The receiver room behind the stars is getting thin: Jalen McMillan remains on IR with coach Bowles suggesting he won't be back immediately even after the Week 10 bye, and Roman Wilson is also on IR with Nov. 22 his earliest possible return. Patrick Mahomes is day-to-day with an elbow issue his coach called "more positive than negative," and Cam Skattebo, ruled out this week, is trending toward a Week 10 return after being called "full go" by his own coach. This roster can apparently run a receiver room through triage and keep winning anyway.
  5. 5NFCDEEZNUTZZ Ian Spencer· NFCDEEZNUTZZ blew past the projection and Skeeze Machines both, winning 129.88–105.86 after ESPN had Skeeze favored by 9.17 points (122.9–113.8) at kickoff — Ian Spencer flipped that into a 24.02-point win behind an 87.75-point Sunday early window (16.33 to 104.08). The win snaps a two-game skid and moves this team to 5-4, with only 6.4 points left on the bench — Tre Tucker's 10.25 sat behind a Jahan Dotson who managed just 3.85. The receiver room remains the long-term worry: Mike Evans is still out with a right Achilles issue that's kept him off the field since Week 6, with San Francisco deliberately managing his return and no confirmed date yet, per NBC Sports Bay Area, and Davante Adams remains on IR after hamstring surgery, with the team targeting a Week 12 return. Both were already out before this week, so a 24-point beatdown of the favorite is a true measure of what's left standing on this roster.
  6. 6K-9 UNIT Pierce Freeman▲2 the math had them #7 · commissioner moved them +1K-9 UNIT put a 60.56-point mercy rule on Secretary of War, winning 149.95–89.39 behind a 75.82-point Sunday early window (25.35 to 101.17) to push Pierce Freeman to 4-5 on a one-game win streak. The lineup left 16.03 points on the bench — Chig Okonkwo (12.2), the Buccaneers D/ST (12.0) and Dylan Sampson (8.3) all sat — but a 60-point margin covers for a lot of sloppy roster math. On health: Carnell Tate is out this week with a shoulder issue but expected back for Week 10 after the Titans' bye; DeVonta Smith is sitting out for the fifth time in six games with a hamstring injury, with Nov. 22 his next real shot; Terrance Ferguson, who was on the verge of returning from an ankle injury, instead pulled his hamstring in practice and is reportedly out "another couple of weeks"; and J.J. McCarthy is questionable with a hip pointer but expected to play. This team climbs a spot not for anything it did this week, but because Liberal Agenda is now down a starting receiver for the season and this roster isn't carrying a wound like that.
  7. 7Liberal Agenda David Bruce▼3 the math had them #6 · commissioner moved them -1Liberal Agenda blew a 7.85-point lead on the Sunday early games and got run over from there, outscored 144.43–102.45 the rest of the way in a 119.45–153.58 loss to Karen Williams — a 34.13-point final margin and a drop to 4-5. The lineup wasn't really the problem, just 3.6 points left on the bench, with Emmett Johnson's 9.9 sitting behind a Dalton Kincaid who scored 6.3. The real news is Michael Wilson, the starting WR, who coach Mike LaFleur revealed is out for the season with a fractured neck — the single costliest injury in the league this week, and the reason this team drops a spot. Malik Willis, the starting QB, is also dealing with groin and hamstring tightness after a sub-200-yard, no-touchdown outing, and the bench behind them is a full triage unit: Deebo Samuel (hamstring) is trending back toward practice, David Montgomery (groin) is hopeful to resume practicing, George Pickens has only a "chance" to play through his own hamstring issue, Jacory Croskey-Merritt is on IR, and Lamar Jackson is recovering from thumb surgery hoping for a late-season return. A team that just lost a starting receiver for the year doesn't get to float — it sits one spot behind K-9 UNIT, who isn't carrying a comparable wound.
  8. 8Club Shambles Logan Gamer▲1 Club Shambles lost to Diggs Spears Bass 101.34–140.66, a 39.32-point defeat that drops Logan Gamer to 4-5 on a one-game skid, and the lineup card made it worse than it needed to be — 31.25 points left on the bench, with Tank Dell's 23.0, Omar Cooper Jr.'s 14.8, Alvin Kamara's 8.4 and Caleb Douglas's 14.0 all sitting unused. A 46.84-point Sunday late window (39.55 to 86.39) came too late to matter. Jaylen Waddle didn't play this week while working through concussion protocol, targeting a Nov. 22 return after the bye, and Kyler Murray is out with a confirmed Grade 2 hamstring strain — week-to-week per his coach, not currently an IR candidate, and due to be reassessed again before Week 10, per Bleacher Report. The rest of the injury list is deep and mostly static: Michael Pittman Jr. and Travis Etienne Jr. remain on IR with no firm timetable, Dontayvion Wicks is out for a third straight game, and TreVeyon Henderson remains out with an ongoing illness involving unexplained neurological symptoms that the team isn't attaching a timeline to. This roster isn't moving in the rankings this week — the bench problem is on the manager, not the medical staff.
  9. 9Too Great A Burden To Bear Andrew Sharpe▲1 the math had them #10 · commissioner moved them +1Too Great A Burden To Bear beat ThatH0nkyTonk McConkeyD0nk 131.62–118.11, a 13.51-point win and a second victory in three weeks that moves Andrew Sharpe to 3-6, sealed by a 64.63-point Sunday late window that carried them from 44.79 to 109.42. The lineup still left 15.45 points on the bench — Chris Rodriguez Jr. (11.95), Juwan Johnson (11.9) and the Texans D/ST (13.44) all sat — but it didn't matter against an opponent who left even more on theirs. A.J. Brown is trending toward traveling with the team to Munich after an ankle issue, though the final call isn't locked in, while Garrett Wilson remains in concussion protocol with no fixed timetable. Luther Burden III is the real story: he extended his touchdown streak to three games with a 56-yard score in the first quarter of Chicago's win, then left in the fourth quarter with a concussion coach Ben Johnson confirmed afterward, and he'll need to clear protocol before Week 11 — Chicago's Week 10 bye at least buys him extra time. This team climbs a spot, but not for anything in its own box score — Skeeze Machines' own backfield trouble is what moved the needle.
  10. 10Skeeze Machines Cory Hyatt▼3 the math had them #9 · commissioner moved them -1Skeeze Machines lost to NFCDEEZNUTZZ 105.86–129.88, a 24.02-point defeat that also blew the week's own projection — ESPN had this team favored by 9.17 points — and drops Cory Hyatt to 3-6 on a two-game skid. The lineup leaked value too: 21.8 points left on the bench, with Zach Charbonnet's 10.6 and Rome Odunze's 17.0 both sitting while Josh Jacobs managed just 0.5 points and Kyle Pitts Sr. added only 5.3. Jacobs is the real story and the reason this team drops a spot: coach Matt LaFleur confirmed Monday that the starting running back will need surgery on a fractured finger and is out indefinitely, with LaFleur himself saying IR "is a possibility." Alec Pierce remains on IR with his own coach unable to put any timetable on a return, and Isiah Pacheco, out all season after back surgery, has only a "chance" to return in late December. Losing your lead back to surgery with no firm return window is exactly the kind of news a power ranking can't shrug off.
  11. 11ThatH0nkyTonk McConkeyD0nk Bryan Provenzano· ThatH0nkyTonk McConkeyD0nk lost to Too Great A Burden To Bear 118.11–131.62, a 13.51-point defeat and the week's ugliest coaching loss — 22.21 points sat on the bench, and the optimal lineup, 140.32, wins this game outright. Bryan Provenzano started Ladd McConkey, who didn't play a single snap due to back spasms and scored 0.0, while Courtland Sutton (16.75) and Bo Nix (20.18) watched from the bench; it's a third straight loss and a drop to 2-7. McConkey himself is considered day-to-day per coach Jim Harbaugh, with hope he clears practice in time for next Monday's game. The IR list behind him is long and mostly static: Romeo Doubs (shoulder) is hopeful to return after the Week 11 bye, RJ Harvey (knee) can't be activated before Dec. 6, Jonathon Brooks (core) is still being evaluated by his own coaching staff, and Jeremiyah Love (ankle) is working through a four-to-five week recovery window. Starting a guy who never left the sideline is the kind of mistake that explains a lot about this record.
  12. 12Secretary of War Josh Stubblefield· Secretary of War posted the week's low score, 89.39, in a 60.56-point blowout loss to K-9 UNIT, dropping Josh Stubblefield to 2-7 on a four-game losing streak. A 70.99-point Sunday early window (0.0 to 70.99) was the only sign of life all day. The lineup didn't help either — 6.85 points left on the bench, with Kenny Gainwell's 11.1 and Emeka Egbuka's 7.4 both sitting behind starters who gave less back. The lone injury of note is Kyle Monangai, out this week with a lingering thumb and toe issue, with his coach reportedly targeting a Week 11 return after this week's bye. A quiet injury report doesn't make up for a four-game losing streak and the league's worst score of the week.