The first half of the NFL season has had some classic games already. And the parity across the top half of the standings means there should be plenty of great games to come. With nine of 18 weeks of the NFL season behind us, let's rank the top five games we've seen, and call out the five best matchups for the rest of the season:

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Surtain continued that tremendous play in 2025 up until the pectoral injury he sustained in Week 9, which makes his availability week to week," The Next Gen Stats Analytics Team wrote on NFL.com. "Prior to that injury,