NFL Power Rankings Week 10: Stock Watch for League's Worst Teams

Only one of the NFL's worst teams rose in the power rankings this week, while the others remain mired in disappointments of their own making, with one dropping down to nearly the very bottom of the list.

The Miami Dolphins finally managed their first win of the season, blowing out the Kansas City Chiefs 31-3. Considering that the majority of the Dolphins' losses came in close-scoring games, the decisive win has the Dolphins rising in the rankings for the first time this season.

The Chiefs were on a four-game winning streak when Miami came to town last Sunday, and the manner in which the Dolphins dispatched the heavily-favored team bodes well for the team's chances to turn around their season and not end their year as the league's worst squad.

Surely, one win does not erase their losses and how they lost them, but it finally provides the team with something truly positive to build on—that's more than could be said about the Dolphins in the eight weeks that preceded the win.

Fortunes have shifted for the Washington Redskins, but unfortunately for them, their stock is only dropping.

They've lost their last four games in a row after winning three of their first four at the beginning of the season, and things only seem to be getting worse.

Quarterback John Beck has gone from a promising alternative to the benched Rex Grossman to a player who would be riding pine himself were the team carrying a third quarterback.

He seems to have little ability to make the big play, consistently checking down to running back Roy Helu in his team's loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 9.

At the same time, the running game itself has stalled out after starter Tim Hightower suffered a season-ending ACL tear.

Helu has made up for his weak production on the ground, catching all those short passes from Beck, but until either himself, Ryan Torain or the newly-acquired Tashard Choice can actually gain significant yardage on the ground, the Redskins are stuck with leaning on the unreliable Beck.

While the Redskins don't have a poor defense, their offense cannot manage to score and thus continue to slide down the power rankings and the NFC East standings.

This week, they face that improved Dolphins squad—the outcome of that game could easily flip the two teams in the rankings for Week 11 should Washington pull out the win.

However, I see the Redskins dropping their fifth consecutive game against a Dolphins squad with momentum on its side.

NFL Power Rankings, Week 10
 
1. Green Bay Packers
2. San Francisco 49ers
3. Baltimore Ravens
4. Houston Texans
5. New Orleans Saints
6. Cincinnati Bengals
7. Detroit Lions
8. Pittsburgh Steelers
9. New England Patriots
10. New York Jets
11. Atlanta Falcons
12. Chicago Bears
13. Buffalo Bills
14. New York Giants
15. San Diego Chargers
16. Dallas Cowboys
17. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
18. Oakland Raiders
19. Tennessee Titans
20. Philadelphia Eagles
21. Kansas City Chiefs
22. Carolina Panthers
23. Jacksonville Jaguars
24. Cleveland Browns
25. Miami Dolphins
26. Minnesota Vikings
27. Seattle Seahawks
28. Denver Broncos
29. Arizona Cardinals
30. St. Louis Rams
31. Washington Redskins
32. Indianapolis Colts