That's the case for all but one division — the NFC North. The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers sit at the bottom of the division with a 4-2 record. Those would be first place records in five of the other seven divisions in the NFL.

The Minnesota Vikings are in first place at 5–0, followed by the Detroit Lions at 4–1 and the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears at 4–2. That makes the NFC North the first division since the NFL adopted the current four-team division format in 2002 to have every team win at least four games through the first six weeks of the season.

The NFC North will be the first division since the 1970 merger in which every team has 4+ wins through the first 6 weeks of a season. No division has ever had each team make the playoffs in the same season: