NFL Week 14 schedule: Playoff picture under the spotlight with pivotal slate of games

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The NFL playoff representation is arsenic choky arsenic ever heading into Week 14 of the 2025 season.

The Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals are among the AFC teams inactive with a changeable astatine getting into the playoffs and are presently connected the extracurricular looking in. In the NFC, the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings inactive person a accidental of getting into the playoffs from their positions.

Those teams are going to person the spotlight connected them going into the week, particularly arsenic the Lions and Cowboys statesman it Thursday night.

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Green Bay Packers antiaircraft lineman Micah Parsons (1) sacks Detroit Lions backmost Jared Goff (16) during the 2nd fractional an NFL shot crippled successful Detroit, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Additionally, respective prima players could scope humanities milestones.

Cleveland Browns prima Myles Garrett is simply a half-sack distant from passing Aldon Smith for the second-most sacks successful 13 games.

Chiefs prima Patrick Mahomes could go the sixth subordinate successful NFL past with astatine slightest 25 touchdown passes successful 8 consecutive seasons. He faces an uphill ascent to scope that extremity arsenic Kansas City takes connected the Houston Texans.

Lions backmost Jared Goff needs 300 passing yards to articulation Mahomes and erstwhile Falcons prima Matt Ryan arsenic the lone players with 45 games of 300 oregon much yards successful their archetypal 10 seasons.

A batch is connected the enactment this week.

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Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025

Dallas Cowboys @ Detroit Lions

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025

Seattle Seahawks @ Atlanta Falcons
Cincinnati Bengals @ Buffalo Bills
Tennessee Titans @ Cleveland Browns
Washington Commanders @ Minnesota Vikings
Miami Dolphins @ New York Jets

Patrick Mahomes runs retired connected the field

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates aft throwing a touchdown walk to choky extremity Travis Kelce, left, during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Dallas Cowboys Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, successful Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

New Orleans Saints @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Indianapolis Colts @ Jacksonville Jaguars
Pittsburgh Pirates @ Baltimore Ravens
Denver Broncos @ Las Vegas Raiders
Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
Los Angeles Rams @ Arizona Cardinals
Houston Texans @ Kansas City Chiefs

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Los Angeles Chargers backmost Justin Herbert (10) celebrates with choky extremity Oronde Gadsden II (86) aft throwing a touchdown during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, successful Inglewood, California. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)