It's time to get better. Every offseason, I run through various NFL minutiae and collect all the data I can to try to figure out what's going to happen in the season to come. While much of that depends on the decisions teams made and the people organizations did (or did not) add during the spring, you can learn a lot about what might happen in 2025 by taking a closer look at what was happening under the radar in 2024.

It's my annual look at the teams that are likely to improve in the upcoming season. This is the ninth year I've run this column at ESPN, and the results over the past eight seasons have been pretty solid. Over that stretch, the teams mentioned in this column have improved 31 out of 38 times, with the average jump coming by 3.4 wins per 17 games.

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