NFL Wild Card Weekend: What to know about the upcoming games

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After 18 weeks, the NFL regular play has travel to a close, and the playoffs are here.

There are 14 teams near standing, each eyeing a changeable astatine making a Super Bowl tally that concludes with confetti connected the tract successful Santa Clara, California. Week 18 delivered heartbreak for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Baltimore Ravens, who fell conscionable abbreviated of winning their part and missed the playoffs.

Wild Card Weekend has 2 games connected Saturday, 3 games connected Sunday and 1 crippled connected Monday.

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New England Patriots backmost Drake Maye celebrates aft a touchdown scored by moving backmost TreVeyon Henderson during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Miami Dolphins. In Foxborough, Massachusetts, connected Jan. 4, 2026. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)

In Week 18, the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks earned the No. 1 effect and the all-important bye week.

While the Broncos and Seahawks volition ticker the chaos unfold astatine home, 12 teams volition beryllium battling for their playoff lives during NFL Wild Card weekend.

NFL Wild Card play has a small spot of everything: heated rivalries that volition adhd different chapter, rematches from hotly contested regular play games, and rematches of NFC and AFC Championship games.

The Los Angeles Rams volition statesman the play seeking to avenge their Nov. 30, 31-28 nonaccomplishment to the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers mislaid to the Buccaneers connected Saturday, leaving their playoff destiny successful the hands of the Altanta Falcons. If the Falcons mislaid to the Saints, past the Buccaneers would person precocious instead.

However, the Falcons bushed the Saints, mounting up the rematch with the Rams.

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Caleb Williams of the Chicago Bears passes the shot against the Green Bay Packers during the 2nd 4th astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago, Illinois, connected Dec. 20, 2025. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

The Saturday nighttime crippled sets up a circular 3 betwixt the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, who person delivered 2 thrillers truthful acold this season. The teams divided the series, each squad winning astatine home.

It’s besides the 3rd clip the 2 teams person played successful the playoffs, and the bitter rivals divided the erstwhile 2 matchups.

Sunday’s slate begins with the Buffalo Bills traveling down southbound to play the Jacksonville Jaguars. Both teams are among the hottest successful the NFL entering the playoffs, arsenic the Bills person won 4 successful a enactment portion the Jaguars person won 8 consecutive games.

The Jaguars had a phenomenal archetypal play nether caput manager Liam Coen, going 13-4 and winning the second-most games successful a azygous play successful franchise history. They volition look to instrumentality down the Bills, who participate arsenic a Wild Card team.

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Jacksonville Jaguars backmost Trevor Lawrence (16) scores a touchdown during the 2nd fractional against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine EverBank Stadium. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

The mediate crippled connected Sunday is simply a rematch of the 2022 NFC Championship crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers. The Eagles bushed the 49ers 31-7 aft backmost Brock Purdy and backup backmost Josh Johnson suffered injuries.

The 49ers and Eagles person played doubly successful the playoffs, each winning a game.

The past crippled connected Sunday is betwixt the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Chargers, marking the 4th clip the 2 teams person met since the crook of the century. The Patriots person won each of those playoff appearances, downing the Chargers successful the AFC Divisional Round successful 2007 and 2019, portion beating the Chargers successful the AFC Championship successful 2008.

Monday night’s crippled is betwixt the Pittsburgh Steelers, who needed a missed Tyler Loop tract extremity to advance, and the Houston Texans, who boast the NFL’s champion defense. The 2 teams person ne'er played against each different successful the playoffs, and the Steelers ain a 5-3 grounds against the Texans each time.

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Baltimore Ravens spot kicker Tyler Loop (33) reacts aft missing the game-winning tract extremity against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 2nd fractional astatine Acrisure Stadium. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)