This just in: the defending Super Bowl-champion Seattle Seahawks are going to be a pretty good football team in 2014.

OK, it might not be breaking news that the Hawks should challenge to be among the NFL’s best in the coming season, but a new report by Pro Football Focus puts the team squarely on the top of the league in terms of sheer talent.

PFF went through the presumed starters for each NFL squad for the upcoming season and slotted each player into one of eight categories: Rookie, Not Enough Information, Poor Starter, Below Average Starter, Average Starter, Good Starter, High Quality and Elite.

The rankings are sure to be controversial and don’t mean much when it comes to how the season will play out, but they do provide some nice offseason discussion fodder. (Note: the rankings included 12 players on both offense and defense, allowing for an extra wide receiver and cornerback for each unit.)

We won’t give it all away here, but suffice to say that any time you have more “Elite” players than “Below Average Starters” or worse, that’s a good thing — and that’s the situations the Hawks find themselves in heading into 2014.

According to PFF, the weak spot on the Hawks’ roster is the offensive line, and that shouldn’t surprise after they were called one of the worst in the NFL by Sports On Earth’s Mike Tanier this week. The bright spot? The members of the Hawks’ “Legion of Boom” secondary, two of whom were ranked as Elite players.

Seattle is immediately followed in the rankings by the arch-rival San Francisco 49ers, while the Seahawks’ opponents in Super Bowl XLVIII, the Denver Broncos, come in third. The New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles round out the top five.

The Arizona Cardinals come in at No. 9 overall with the St. Louis Rams bringing up the rear for the NFC West at 31.

Want to see how PFF ranked each presumed Seahawks starter? Click through the gallery above, and give us your thoughts in the comments section below.

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