Week 9 went out with an absolute thriller between the Chiefs and the Buccaneers to close out the action, and we now sit at (roughly) the midway point of the season. As we turned the calendar to November,

Each week of the NFL season, The Baltimore Sun will recap the best and worst from around the league. Here are our winners and losers from Week 9: Winner: Lamar Jackson Greatest of all time? It’s not crazy.

Former Louisville football star and current Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is off to another great year. The Ravens (6-3) are in second place in the AFC North, while Jackson ranks in the top 5 for passing yards and touchdowns after Week 9.

Another loss has the Chicago Bears trending in the wrong direction in the power rankings. With reports of yet another team meeting, it feels like the Bears are in free fall. But the truth is they have another winnable game this weekend before they start their absolutely brutal onslaught of divisional games down the stretch.

Defense is the name of the game in the NFL, and by Week 9, every team’s true colors will start to show and become known to everybody.

The experts are becoming cautiously optimistic about the 49ers. They didn't even play this week and yet they climbed one spot to no. 13 in NFL.com's Week 10 power rankings.