2023 NFL predictions: Super Bowl LVII winner, major awards, and more

The NFL is set to return with Thursday’s season opener between the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions, and theScore’s football staff is kicking things off with playoff, Super Bowl, and awards predictions for this season.
AFC
The Kansas City Chiefs winning their eighth straight AFC West title is the only consensus choice among our division-winner picks. However, the Jacksonville Jaguars aren’t too far off, with all but two of our editors going with the clear favorites in the AFC South. While the Cincinnati Bengals are the oddsmakers’ picks to win the AFC North for the third time in a row, we’re buying the Baltimore Ravens hype with seven of 10 votes going to Lamar Jackson and Co. The AFC East will be the conference’s most competitive division, but the Buffalo Bills still received the majority of the votes with six, while the arrival of Aaron Rodgers will propel the New York Jets from worst to first in th