We’re by way of Week 12 of the 2025 NFL season, and with solely six weeks left within the common season, the playoff image and the highway to Tremendous Bowl LX are beginning to come into sight. Good groups have grow to be nice, unhealthy groups hold discovering methods to shock us, and the race for wild-card spots is just getting wilder. Which groups have the perfect possibilities to make the 14-team playoff discipline? Which nonetheless have work to do to finally get in?
We used ESPN’s Soccer Energy Index to venture the remainder of the season, trying on the playoff image for each conferences. We included up to date odds for each crew to make the postseason, clinch its division and even make the Tremendous Bowl.
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Projecting the AFC playoff discipline
The Chiefs might need simply saved their season with an additional time win towards the Colts. After going 0-5 in one-score video games this season, Kansas Metropolis lastly turned its luck round and pulled out the late victory. The Texans’ protection, in the meantime, rode eight sacks to victory of their Thursday evening matchup with the Payments. The win retains the Texans on the fringes of the playoff image … and raises extra questions for the Payments.
The Ravens and Steelers are actually tied atop the AFC North, each sitting at 6-5. Baltimore has utterly turned its protection round after an abysmal begin to the season and is on a five-game win streak heading into Thanksgiving. Thursday’s sport would be the final take a look at for the defensive unit, because the Bengals — and presumably Joe Burrow — come to city trying to salvage their disappointing season.
Projecting the NFC playoff discipline
The Rams are actually the crew to beat within the NFC — it is simply that nobody can appear to take action recently. L.A. routed the Buccaneers in prime time in Week 12. One crew that might stand between the Rams and the 1-seed (regardless of an offensive meltdown after the crew’s first three drives this week) is the Eagles, who personal the tiebreaker after a Week 3 thriller that resulted in a Philadelphia win.
The 49ers bought a gritty win over the Panthers on “Monday Evening Soccer” as they superior to 8-4 and saved themselves within the playoff image. Carolina, in the meantime, noticed an enormous lower in its possibilities whereas preventing to overhaul the Bucs within the NFC South standings. The Panthers are going to wish all the assistance they’ll recover from the following six video games — the primary of which is towards the division-leading Rams.
One crew that won’t be partaking within the playoff race is the Giants, who’ve been eradicated following their additional time loss to the Lions.
NFL playoff schedule
Jan. 10-12, 2026: Wild-card roundJan. 17-18: Divisional roundJan. 25: AFC and NFC championship gamesFeb. 8: Tremendous Bowl LX (in Santa Clara, California)
