Ranking all 32 NFL road uniforms from worst (sorry, Titans) to best
Some of the NFL's best-dressed teams have been the ones to linger at the bottom of the standings in recent years. Clean throwback-ish combinations like those of the New York Giants or Indianapolis Colts may pop in high definition, but they haven't led any useful data to the "look good, play good" theorem I devised long ago while getting a C- in high school English classes.
So, because it's July as of writing this and we're still weeks away from even meaningless preseason football, let's rank some uniforms. I got to all 32 teams' home uniforms a few weeks back. Now let's tackle the away ones.
My ideal kit satisfies a few basic tenets. The colors have to find a balance between contrast and compliment. The logos have to look sharp and easily understood (or, ideally, iconic). The uniforms themselves can't look too busy or chase trends. And, most importantly, it all has to look good draped across 300 pounds of MEAT.
All teams are judged by their primary away kits from 2024. You can find them all at the Gridiron Uniform Database, which is monumentally helpful, here. All rankings are personal opinions because art is subjective, but rest assured if you take issue with any team's specific placement it is a function of bias and because I hate you and your stupid team specifically, dear reader.
32. Tennessee Titans
Combination: Blue helmet, white jerseys, blue pants
The two-tone shoulder panels are an improvement over the old yokes the team wore early in its Nashville days. Still, rolling with the old Oilers uniforms on an annual basis only shines a spotlight on how bland these unis are.
31. Jacksonville Jaguars
Combination: Black helmet, white jerseys, black or white pants
Behold, the NFL's most generic away uniforms.
30. Washington Commanders
Combination: Burgundy helmet, white jerseys, white pants
These work better than the team's all-burgundy home kits. But the gradient in the numbers and sleeve stripes feels out of place and everything else feels like it was plucked from a template.
29. Atlanta Falcons
Combination: Black helmet, white jerseys, white pants
The big, clunky numbers and red drop shadows feel a little more like a high school redesign than a kit from one of the NFL's best dressed teams. Again, I say bring back the red helmets full time.
28. Houston Texans
Combination: Navy helmet, white jerseys, white or navy pants
The contrast of Houston's road whites make this a cleaner kit than their home uniforms -- we'll tackle the H-Town variants somewhere down the line, but hooo buddy. The tapered bull horn shoulder stripe feels tacky in theory but looks good in execution.
27. Seattle Seahawks
Combination: Blue helmet, white jerseys, blue or white pants
There's nothing wrong with these uniforms -- they're a little busy, but otherwise they're mostly fine.
26. Kansas City Chiefs
Combination: Red helmet, white jerseys, white pants
The red pops against the white thanks to the yellow highlights. It's not complex, but it *is* aesthetically pleasing.
25. Arizona Cardinals
Combination: White helmet, white jerseys, white pants
The Cardinals ditched their shoulder panels/yolks and opted for the simplicity of their home uniforms. The all-white isn't complex, but the shoulder stripes add a little extra contrast and the kits in general serve as a significant upgrade from the very-2000s uniforms they wore for nearly two decades.
24. Carolina Panthers
Combination: Silver helmet, white jerseys, white, black or blue pants
The shoulder stripes have the right idea of infusing Carolina blue in bits and pieces -- it's why the all-whites look the best among the team's three white-jersey options. Admittedly, this combination is aging well and is flipping back toward sharp.
23. Cincinnati Bengals
Combination: Orange helmet, white jerseys, white or black pants
Your mileage may vary depending on how much you like the black/white stripe print down the sides. A little bit of orange and black goes a long way, so this is still better than when it looked like a tiger was melting down Boomer Esiason's body.
22. New England Patriots
Combination: Silver helmet, white jerseys, blue or silver pants
The shoulder stripes were an immediate improvement and a step closer to Pat Patriot's providence. The dark blue pants help bring out the best in them, while the silver getaway sticks are fairly boring and the helmet logo still stinks.
21. Philadelphia Eagles
Combination: Green helmet, white jerseys, white or green pants
A perfectly cromulent uniform that loses points due to the lack of Kelly green and the absence of the vastly superior flying eagle shoulder logo.
20. Baltimore Ravens
Combination: Black helmet, white jerseys, black, purple or white pants
The gold outline on purple numbers looks lovely. The purple pants are the superior combination. If Baltimore *just* wore those, it would rate more highly.
19. Minnesota Vikings
Combination: Purple helmet, white jerseys, purple or white pants
I miss the yellow number outlines of previous jerseys, but the Vikings ditched their 2000s paneling for a traditional look and it's paid off.
18. Miami Dolphins
Combination: White helmet, white jerseys, teal or white pants
A gorgeous color combination aided by softening the green of the team's mid-2000s kits to create a more tropical vibe. Now bring back the old Dolphin logo, 80s shoulder stripes and wider orange highlights on the jersey numbers and they'll crack the top five.
17. Denver Broncos
Combination: Navy helmet, white jerseys, white, orange or navy pants
The side panels are gone, replaced by a two-tone sleeve stripe. The collar is more subtle. Everything looks more crisp -- especially with orange pants and white socks.
16. Las Vegas Raiders
Combination: Silver helmet, white jerseys, silver pants
It lacks the contrast of the team's superior home uniforms, but Vegas's away kit is instantly recognizable and stoic in its simplicity. Both the silver or black numbers work well.
15. Indianapolis Colts
Combination: White helmet, white jerseys, white pants
Clean and coordinated, with the pants, jerseys, and helmet all sharing blue stripes. It looked good four decades ago and it looks good now.
14. Green Bay Packers
Combination: Yellow helmet, white jerseys, yellow pants
Sticking in the realm of old school classics, the white jerseys lack the richness of their green colleagues, but still have nice, crisp balance for an iconic look.
13. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Combination: Pewter helmet, white jerseys, white or pewter pants
A simple update of the team's old, unpleasant calculator-numbered jerseys. The colors here work wonders, but this kit is still gonna get blown out of the water when the team unveils its 50th anniversary, 1976 white throwbacks this fall.
12. Detroit Lions
Combination: Silver helmet, white jerseys, silver pants
The color scheme is nearly perfect and there's just the right amount of blue to make everything pop. The return to big block numbers instead of the italic ones of the late 2010s is an upgrade. Not wearing blue pants with the white jerseys in the 2024 regular season did ding Detroit's ranking slightly.
11. New York Jets
Combination: Green helmet, white jerseys, green pants
Two colors and shoulder stripes that match the collar. Simple and clean.
10. Dallas Cowboys
Combination: Silver helmet, white jerseys, light blue pants
A look so nice the team deploys it for home games throughout the season as well. The blue and silver pop, creating an instantly recognizable kit. The light blue on the pants could be too much, but instead it blends nicely as the midpoint between the team's two signature colors.
9. New Orleans Saints
Combination: Gold helmet, white jerseys, black or gold pants
This combination of colors and logo work with just about everything. That said, the gold numbers and black-gold sleeve stripes of the older unis is the best of those combos.
8. Los Angeles Rams
Combination: Blue helmet, white jerseys, white or blue pants
In 2024, the Rams opted for their brighter, cleaner throwback-inspired away whites (eight games) rather than the dingy bone-colored uniforms they unveiled in 2020. This was the correct decision.
7. Los Angeles Chargers
Combination: White helmet, white jerseys, white or yellow pants
The Chargers in their all whites? Beautiful. The Chargers with their mustard yellow pants? A little less so (friends, just wait until 2025's all-mustard alternates), but the blue in the high socks is different enough to keep from looking weird. Right about here you can make the case for anything at least this high to be the NFL's top road jerseys (or before it, really, everything is subjective).
6. Cleveland Browns
Combination: Orange helmet, white jerseys, orange pants
The sock stripe matches the sleeve stripe. The pants stripe parallels the helmet stripe. The white allows a truly gross color combination to shine without being overpowering. Wonderful.
5. Pittsburgh Steelers
Combination: Black helmet, white jerseys, yellow pants
Old school perfection. Everything about this uniform is a sigil for both the city and its franchise. But the block numbers on the team's dark jerseys work better than the slanted ones here.
4. San Francisco 49ers
Combination: Gold helmet, white jerseys, gold pants
Throw in the red socks and you've got a perfectly balanced complement of colors against the white canvas of the jersey. San Francisco's home kits are good; these are better.
3. New York Giants
Combination: Blue helmet, white jerseys, silver pants
I like the red outlined blue numbers of the Phil Simms era, but there's no questioning the clean simplicity of a kit capable of making Daniel Jones look good for six years.
2. Chicago Bears
Combination: Navy helmet, white jerseys, navy pants
Orange is used as a perfect complement in stripes and to highlight names and numbers. The rest of the fit is a navy/white/navy sandwich. A perfect classic look that is even better in throwback form.
1. Buffalo Bills
Combination: White helmet, white jerseys, blue pants
The kit that made the team's paneled 2000s uniforms look like the barfed-up retreads they were. The contrast and balance here is wonderful.
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