{"id":655378,"date":"2026-01-05T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:53:13","slug":"seattle-seahawks-playoff-schedule-seahawks-could-know-divisional-round-foe-by-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655378\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks playoff schedule: Seahawks could know Divisional Round foe by Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL has released the Wild Card schedule to kick off the 2026 playoffs. Thankfully, the Seattle Seahawks have that coveted week off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-nfl-playoffs\/158872\/nfl-standings-updated-nfc-west-playoff-picture-week-18-vs-san-francisco-49ers-wild-card-seeding-tiebreakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as the number one seed in the NFC.<\/a> In the meantime, it\u2019s a waiting game over next weekend to figure out which team will come over to Lumen Field for the Divisional Round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Based on the schedule and the NFL\u2019s seeding rules, the Seahawks may know their first opponent sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Who the Seahawks won\u2019t play in the NFC Divisional Round<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Neither the Chicago Bears nor Philadelphia Eagles can face Seattle in the Divisional Round. The highest seed a top seed can face is No. 4, and the Bears and Eagles are respectively No. 2 and No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Who the Seahawks can play in the NFC Divisional Round<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seahawks will play the lowest seed available in the Divisional Round, which otherwise means there are four possible options:<\/p>\n<p>Four possible Seahawks Divisional Round opponents<\/p>\n<p>When will the Seahawks\u2019 Divisional Round game date, kickoff time be confirmed?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Most likely toward the end of Wild Card weekend, presumably during Sunday Night Football between the Los Angeles Chargers and New England Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has released the Wild Card schedule to kick off the 2026 playoffs. Thankfully, the Seattle Seahawks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,74664,85467,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-655378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-playoff-picture","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-scores-and-results","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115841414180619833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655378","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=655378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}