Ryan Dunleavy previews the NFC West as The Post gives division-by-division breakdowns ahead of the 2022 NFL season.

Coach: Sean McVay 

2021 record: 12-5 

O/U wins: 10.5 

Key additions: WR Allen Robinson, CB Troy Hill, LB Bobby Wagner, P Riley Dixon 

Key departures: WR Odell Beckham Jr., G Austin Corbett, WR Robert Woods, RB Sony Michel, LT Andrew Whitworth, EDGE Von Miller, DT Sebastian Joseph-Day, CB Darious Williams, P Johnny Hekker 

First-and-goal: The Super Bowl champions did what they do and attracted star players from other teams while eschewing the draft. It’s still possible Beckham (torn ACL) could return from free agency when healthy. Just as importantly, they retained their own big names by signing McVay and three-time Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald to new contracts after both flirted with early retirement. The Rams return 16 starters from the Super Bowl, including the NFL’s new premier QB-WR duo of Matthew Stafford-Cooper Kupp. With Donald, Wagner and CB Jalen Ramsey, the Rams could have an All-Pro at all three levels of the defense. 

Fourth-and-long: There’s a reason no Super Bowl champion has repeated since the 2003-04 Patriots. Every team will be gunning for the Rams, including two shots each from the other three teams in the NFC’s best division. Stafford had a 2007 Eli Manning-like season, where he led the NFL in interceptions thrown (20) during the regular season but took his game to new heights in the playoffs. One retirement the Rams could not prevent was Whitworth, who was replaced by former reserve Joe Noteboom. The offense is in danger of being too one-dimensional if RB Cam Akers doesn’t return to his pre-Achilles form. 

Dunleavy’s Decision: 11-6. Dream Teams often falter in the playoffs. This one didn’t. How many titles can McVay, 36, win if he sticks with coaching? 

Coach: Kliff Kingsbury 

2021 record: 12-5 

O/U wins: 8.5 

Key additions: WR Marquise Brown, G Will Hernandez, TE Trey McBride 

Key departures: RB Chase Edmonds, WR Christian Kirk, EDGE Chandler Jones, DT Jordan Phillips, LB Jordan Hicks 

First-and-goal: After more than 50 years without it happening, the last two Super Bowl winners have played at home. This season’s finale will be played in Scottsdale, Ariz. Are the Cardinals a contender? If QB Kyler Murray lives up to his contract (five years, $230.5 million), they will be. The Cardinals didn’t make a lot of changes to the roster because they believe from last season’s 7-0 start that the pieces are in place to challenge the Rams. Four of the five starters on the offensive line are the same. Brown is a breakout candidate in an offense much more receiver-friendly than Baltimore’s. 

Fourth-and-long: WR DeAndre Hopkins is suspended for the first six games of the season. That will make it hard for the Cardinals to get off to the kind of fast start that made the last two late-season swoons tolerable. The Cardinals have a “Rams Light” approach to collecting free-agent stars like DE J.J. Watt, WR A.J. Green, RB James Connor and TE Zach Ertz, though all the former Pro Bowlers seem to arrive in Arizona with less left in the tank than they do in Los Angeles. Two former first-round picks — LBs Isaiah Simmons and Zaven Collins — need to make big jumps to cover up a weak pass rush. 

Dunleavy’s Decision: 10-7. Kingsbury is on the hot seat. There is a boom-or-bust aspect to the Cardinals’ season. Murray’s play saves his job. 

Coach: Kyle Shanahan 

2021 record: 10-7 

O/U wins: 10.5 

Key additions: WR Ray-Ray McCloud, CB Charvarius Ward, LB Oren Burks, DE Drake Jackson 

Key departures: G Laken Tomlinson, RT Tom Compton, RB Raheem Mostert, C Alex Mack, EDGE Dee Ford, DT D.J. Jones, CB K’Waun Williams, CB Josh Norman 

First-and-goal: The names are different, but the 49ers’ blueprint is copied from the Chiefs — draft a raw quarterback (Trey Lance instead of Patrick Mahomes) to a playoff-caliber team, develop him as he sits for a season behind a veteran (Jimmy Garoppolo instead of Alex Smith) and then hand him the reins. If Lance is the real deal, the 49ers are set up to contend for Super Bowls. TE George Kittle, WR Deebo Samuel, FB Kyle Juszczyk, LT Trent Williams and LB Fred Warner are among the top handful at their respective positions. Strong nucleus. 

Fourth-and-long: Two flaws in the plan. First, Lance is not Mahomes. Second, the Chiefs traded Smith, while the 49ers just signed the injury-recovering Jimmy G to a one-year $7 million contract making for a potentially untenable locker room. What if Lance isn’t ready? Then the 49ers are a team of players in their prime held back by their quarterback. Remember, they were a blown 10-point fourth-quarter lead from a second Super Bowl appearance in three years. Could the newly paid Samuel start complaining again about the physical wear-and-tear of running up the middle? The 49ers downgraded along the offensive and defensive lines. 

Dunleavy’s Decision: 7-10. Odds are that Lance isn’t Mahomes. And the 49ers’ supporting cast got worse because Garoppolo ate a big cap chunk while waiting on his fate. 

Coach: Pete Carroll 

2021 record: 7-10 

O/U wins: 5.5 

Key additions: QB Drew Lock, TE Noah Fant, OT Charles Cross, RB Kenneth Walker III, OT Abraham Lucas, DE Boye Mafe, DT Shelby Harris, EDGE Uchenna Nwosu, CB Artie Burns, DT Quinton Jefferson, CB Justin Coleman 

Key departures: QB Russell Wilson, LB Bobby Wagner, LT Duane Brown, RB Chris Carson, TE Gerald Everett, EDGE Benson Mayowa, EDGE Carlos Dunlap, CB D.J. Reed, EDGE Rasheem Green 

First-and-goal: Credit the 70-year-old Carroll for embracing change rather than conning the Seahawks into taping things together for another few years in hopes of an unlikely Super Bowl run. After years of empty drafts, the Seahawks laid a new foundation with Cross, Mafe, Walker and Lucas as top-72 draft picks. They convinced WR D.K. Metcalf to re-sign and be part of a good collection of skill talent with Fant and WR Tyler Lockett. The offensive line was overdue for the overhaul it received, though it’s not the ideal makeup for Carroll’s ground-and-pound preference. LB Jordyn Brooks is a rising star. 

Fourth-and-long: What a rapid decline. Just two years ago, the Seahawks were a 12-win team with Super Bowl aspirations. The last echoes of the back-to-back Super Bowl trips (2013 and 2014) are gone with Wilson’s trade and Wagner’s release. Brown was there nearly as long, but followed Reed to the Jets. QB Geno Smith (2-3 as a starter since he was sucker-punched by a Jets teammate in 2015) beat out Drew Lock (one of the return pieces in the Wilson trade) to start Week 1. Speaking of the Jets, the Seahawks’ illogical trade for Jamal Adams expedited this rebuild. 

Dunleavy’s Decision: 5-12. The Seahawks didn’t have a losing season from 2012-20. You can almost hear Wilson singing, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone.”