Here's my fantasy football team defense draft rankings for 2016. Rankings are the bread and butter of drafting which is exactly why I put so much time and effort into my rankings headed into the fantasy draft. A couple weeks ago I wrapped up my "expert dynasty rookie draft" and man what a wake up call. Since I didn't do my team defense ranking I didn't have a critical piece of the puzzle complete for the draft, strength of schedule indicators. For those that follow me, you know I use SOS as one of the factors to build my team defense rankings. Now that didn't kill me for the rookie draft since I was picking based solely on upside however, it motivated me to go ahead and knock out my team defense rankings which all of my other rankings will use to an extent. Enough talk let's get to why we're here today, the rankings. We will update all of our draft rankings as needed until the start of the 2016 NFL season.
| Rank | Team Name | Team | Bye Week | Position ADP |
| 1 | Seattle Seahawks | SEA | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Denver Broncos | DEN | 11 | 1 |
| 3 | Arizona Cardinals | ARI | 9 | 3 |
| 4 | Carolina Panthers | CAR | 7 | 4 |
| 5 | Houston Texans | HOU | 9 | 5 |
| 6 | Los Angeles Rams | LA | 8 | 7 |
| 7 | New England Patriots | NE | 9 | 8 |
| 8 | Kansas City Chiefs | KC | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | New York Jets | NYJ | 11 | 9 |
| 10 | Buffalo Bills | BUF | 10 | 12 |
| 11 | Cincinnati Bengals | CIN | 9 | 13 |
| 12 | Minnesota Vikings | MIN | 6 | 11 |
| 13 | Green Bay Packers | GB | 4 | 17 |
| 14 | Philadelphia Eagles | PHI | 4 | 22 |
| 15 | Pittsburgh Steelers | PIT | 8 | 10 |
| 16 | Miami Dolphins | MIA | 8 | 18 |
| 17 | Baltimore Ravens | BAL | 8 | 20 |
| 18 | Jacksonville Jaguars | JAC | 5 | 14 |
| 19 | Oakland Raiders | OAK | 10 | 15 |
| 20 | Detroit Lions | DET | 10 | 27 |
| 21 | Washington Redskins | WAS | 9 | 21 |
| 22 | New York Giants | NYG | 8 | 16 |
| 23 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | TB | 6 | 23 |
| 24 | Chicago Bears | CHI | 9 | 24 |
| 25 | San Francisco 49ers | SF | 8 | 28 |
| 26 | Cleveland Browns | CLE | 13 | 25 |
| 27 | Indianapolis Colts | IND | 10 | 26 |
| 28 | New Orleans Saints | NO | 5 | 32 |
| 29 | Atlanta Falcons | ATL | 11 | 29 |
| 30 | Tennessee Titans | TEN | 13 | 30 |
| 31 | Dallas Cowboys | DAL | 7 | 19 |
| 32 | San Diego Chargers | SD | 11 | 31 |
