We’re far from the beginning of the 2017 NFL season. In fact, we won’t see the Detroit Lions take the field for a regular season for another five months. Although we still have to wait for the NFL Draft next month, we are starting to see how teams are shaping up to be come September.

Some analysts are already looking forward to how divisions will contend. Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon caused a stir among Lions Twitter on Thursday when he put out his divisional rankings for all eight NFL divisions. Gagnon decided to place the Lions third in the NFC North, behind the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings.

So today’s Question of the Day is:

How would you rank the NFC North after the first two weeks of free agency?

My answer: While I don’t exactly agree with Gagnon’s reasoning, I actually have the exact same rankings as him:

Green Bay Packers Minnesota Vikings Detroit Lions Chicago Bears

Ryan, Chris and I discuss this exact topic on this week’s PODcast, which you can listen to here.

However, let me briefly explain myself here. Aaron Rodgers proved last year he can essentially carry the Packers all by himself, so even though I think Green Bay is a little worse than they were last year, overall they’ll be fine.

As for Lions vs. Vikings, I believe Minnesota had less work to do this free agency. They needed to improve their offensive line and add some offensive weapons. They accomplished both. The Lions added better offensive line help, but the Vikings had more room to improve there and did.

These teams were remarkably even last year, and I suspect they will be again in 2017. I give the slight edge to the Vikings because I think their offense is in better shape than the Lions defense. I give Detroit’s offense and Minnesota’s defense a push.

As for the Chicago Bears, they just reportedly signed Mark Sanchez. What else do I need to say?

Your turn: