The AFC North has held strong as the NFL’s standard-bearer division for the last half-decade if not longer.

The division had produced at least two playoff teams for five straight seasons, including memorably sending all four members in the 2020-2021 campaign, and there was no end in sight coming into this year.

Both the two-time defending AFC North champion Baltimore Ravens as well as the Cincinnati Bengals, which won the division in the two seasons before that, were odds-on favorites to reach the postseason before Week 1.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were a virtual pick’em — listed at odds around +115 (i.e. risking $100 to win $115) — to join their rivals in the 14-field.

But now all of a sudden it feels like an obligation to include an AFC North team.

The group of teams has plummeted thi

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