Welcome to our Athletic NFL Power Rankings. Every week, we ask all of our NFL writers — the local scribes and the national team, this week nearly 30 voters total — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results after 15 weeks of the 2018 season.



We’ve got a Los Angeles team in the Top 2 — and for the first time this season it’s not the Rams.



Hello, Chargers!



The Chargers’ epic Thursday night win against the Kansas City Chiefs, in which Philip Rivers led the Chargers back from a 14-point deficit in the final five minutes and won the game with a ballsy two-point conversion attempt in the final seconds, wasn’t quite enough to overtake the New Orleans Saints for the top spot in our rankings, but this is a significant jump this late in the season.



Because of a quirk with the NFL tiebreaker formula, the Chargers still technically trail the Chiefs in the AFC West (based on division...