NFL power rankings: Stacking up all 32 teams amid 2018 training camp

The Jacksonville Jaguars drop a spot in our NFL power rankings, because they’re largely the least balanced team remaining in the top five.

And it all has to do with who’s under center, quarterback Blake Bortles.

Armed with such a potent defense and one of the better young running backs in the league, Leonard Fournette, one can only imagine how better off the Jags would have been last season with a competent signal-caller under center. Still, the Jaguars put their faith in Bortles by signing him to an extension this offseason.

That was a questionable move, although it changes little heading into 2018.

Jacksonville will again be defined by its defense, hoping to improve upon its impressive 10-6 record and trip to the AFC Championship game.

In an era in which NFL teams rely on the passing game, the Jags are a throwback squad focusing on smashmouth, run-first offense with an elite-level defense.

But stout defensive continuity is difficult to maintain in today’s NFL, so let’s see if that emerges as a challenge in 2018.