NFL Power Rankings: Kansas City Chiefs and Teams Rising Quickly

As a result from some impressive road play on Saturday, three teams—who have been playing much worse than last year—are suddenly shooting up the NFL ranks.

Here's a look at them. 

Kansas City Chiefs

Today's game should be taken with a grain of salt because the Raiders went with Kyle Boller for half of the game and Darren McFadden was hurt early, but still. A 28-0 road victory over a team with a winning record is nothing to scuff at. 

After looking like the worst team in the history of the NFL after their first two games, the Chiefs have a three-point loss and two straight victories.

They get a rematch next week with San Diego to determine to the leader of the AFC West, as crazy as that sounds.

The Chiefs have had an amazing amount of injuries so far this year, and Todd Haley should be commended for the job he's done with this team.

Don't forget this team won nine games last year. They have problems still, but they are certainly back on the way up.

Houston Texans

Similar to the Chiefs, the Texans have some nasty injuries to start this year. Andre Johnson suffered a bad hamstring injury and Mario Williams was lost for the season.

Those are arguably the Texans two most important players, so its understandable that they have dropped in the rankings recently. 

Still though, Matt Schaub and company aren't ready to give up the AFC South just yet. They went into Tennessee today and made an absolute statement, thrashing the Titans 41-7. 

The Texans showed today they are closer to the Top 10 team they were at the beginning of the season than we all thought. 

Atlanta Falcons

Yet another team who was a contender last year but hasn't quite been in sync this year, the Falcons also looked closer to last year's version this weekend.

Atlanta went in to Detroit were it is very tough to play and knocked off the previous one-loss Lions. 

The Falcons have gotten back to the dominating run game in the past few weeks, and as a result, are winning games again. 

Atlanta is back to over .500 and are their way up in a crowded NFC South division.