Every other week here at For The Win, we’ll be keeping tabs on the NFL’s top Super Bowl 58 contenders. This index is our way of gauging the current temperature of the league while trying to get a sense of what might await us in the playoff crucible of January and February. This is an unscientific rationale rooted in recent developments from one football writer’s crystal ball.
The Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers are the NFL’s premier teams. You can check your calendar, but rest assured: It is not 1993. Dak Prescott and Brock Purdy start for Dallas and San Francisco now, not Troy Aikman and Steve Young. What a time to be alive.
Two weeks into the 2023 NFL season, we are watching two marquee franchises slowly reignite one of the sport’s most heated rivalries. As long as the Cowboys and 49ers maintain their scorching paces, a tense playoff rematch that could decide the winner of Super Bowl 58 feels like an inevitability. And the most exciting part is they’ll square off on Sunday Night Football in a few weeks to give us an early teaser of the fireworks.
Can anyone break up the party between Dallas and San Francisco? Let’s dive into this week’s Super Bowl Contender Index and make a case.