determined how the divisional championships<\/a>\u00a0set up:<\/p>\n\u25fe No. 1 seeds \u2014 Denver Broncos in the AFC and Seattle Seahawks in the NFC will host the lowest remaining seed.<\/p>\n
\u25fe The next highest remaining seed hosts the other wild-card weekend winner.<\/p>\n
The NFL postseason is divided into four rounds, starting with wild-card weekend and culminating in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
How to watch the 2026 NFL wild-card weekend games<\/p>\n
All times listed Eastern:<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to 2026 NFL divisional rounds<\/p>\n
After wild-card weekend, divisional rounds will begin with two games on Saturday and two on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Saturday, Jan. 17: Two games – 4:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.Sunday, Jan. 18: Two games – 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Contributing: Ayrton Ostly, USA TODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And just like that, the 18-week regular NFL season is over. But fear not, the playoffs are here.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1635,1586,247,265,825,1101,1111,324,12,388,7,1100,1105,1114,379,248,826,267,246,88,6,245,264,1102,1636,818,817,829,9,266,819,1106,776,1099,1110],"class_list":["post-658366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-american-football-conference","tag-article","tag-article-plus","tag-conference","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-football","tag-graphics","tag-image","tag-image-topper","tag-inc","tag-national","tag-national-football-conference","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-plus","tag-rodgers","tag-scores","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-topper","tag-u0026","tag-usat","tag-usat-graphics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115848087355566155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658366","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=658366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}