{"id":628738,"date":"2025-12-26T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/628738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:04:13","slug":"afc-playoff-standings-buffalo-bills-rooting-guide-in-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/628738\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC playoff standings, Buffalo Bills’ rooting guide in Week 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills<\/a> have business to handle in the final weeks of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

The Bills (11-4) will host the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> (10-5) on Sunday. Every game from this point is close to a must-win scenario.<\/p>\n

While Buffalo might not win the AFC East with the successes of the Patriots in 2025, but it’s close and playoff seeding is still on the line…<\/p>\n

Not only do the Bills need to win, help would be appreciated.<\/p>\n

Heading to Week 17, where are the Bills in the standings<\/a>? Who are the teams they are battling in the AFC postseason race facing this weekend?<\/p>\n

Here are the full Week 17 AFC standings and who every team is facing:<\/p>\n

Record: 2-13.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

15. Browns-e<\/p>\n

Record: 3-12.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Steelers.<\/p>\n

14. Titans-e<\/p>\n

Record: 3-12.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Saints.<\/p>\n

13. Jets-e<\/p>\n

Record: 3-12.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Patriots.<\/p>\n

12. Bengals-e<\/p>\n

Record: 5-10.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Cardinals.<\/p>\n

11. Dolphins-e<\/p>\n

Record: 6-9.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Buccaneers.<\/p>\n

10. Chiefs-e<\/p>\n

Record: 6-9.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Broncos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

9. Ravens<\/p>\n

Record: 7-6.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Packers.<\/p>\n

8. Colts<\/p>\n

Record: 8-7.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Jaguars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—– Playoff seeds —–<\/p>\n

Record: 10-5.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Chargers.<\/p>\n

6. Bills-x<\/p>\n

Record: 11-4.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Eagles.<\/p>\n

5. Chargers-x<\/p>\n

Record: 11-4.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Texans.<\/p>\n

4. Steelers (AFC North leader)-x<\/p>\n

Record: xx.<\/p>\n

Next game: xx.<\/p>\n

3. Jaguars (AFC South)-x<\/p>\n

Record: 11-4.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Colts.<\/p>\n

2. Patriots (AFC East)-x<\/p>\n

Record: 12-3.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Jets.<\/p>\n

1. Broncos (AFC West)-x<\/p>\n

Record: 12-3.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills have business to handle in the final weeks of the 2025 season. The Bills (11-4)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[115,1466,247,265,825,215,232,214,53,2086,324,231,258,25,7,519,221,253,20842,212,125,213,523,393,1184,206,56,88,6,35196,245,537,242,109,530,525,818,1602,2517,327,817,829,9,266,819,222,776,524,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-628738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-afc","9":"tag-afc-south","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-american-football-conference","13":"tag-bills","14":"tag-broncos","15":"tag-buffalo","16":"tag-buffalo-bills","17":"tag-buffalobills","18":"tag-conference","19":"tag-denver","20":"tag-denver-broncos","21":"tag-eagles","22":"tag-football","23":"tag-giants","24":"tag-houston","25":"tag-houston-texans","26":"tag-hub","27":"tag-jacksonville","28":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","29":"tag-jaguars","30":"tag-las","31":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","32":"tag-listicle","33":"tag-new","34":"tag-new-york-giants","35":"tag-news","36":"tag-nfl","37":"tag-nfl-hub","38":"tag-overall","39":"tag-overall-positive","40":"tag-philadelphia","41":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","42":"tag-positive","43":"tag-raiders","44":"tag-scores","45":"tag-smg","46":"tag-smg-listicle","47":"tag-south","48":"tag-sport","49":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","50":"tag-sports","51":"tag-sports-news","52":"tag-statistics","53":"tag-texans","54":"tag-u0026","55":"tag-vegas","56":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}