{"id":670003,"date":"2026-01-11T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:42:13","slug":"two-potential-pittsburgh-steelers-opponents-in-next-playoff-round-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670003\/","title":{"rendered":"Two potential Pittsburgh Steelers opponents in next playoff round revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> will face either the New England Patriots or Buffalo Bills if they win against the Houston Texans on Monday.<\/p>\n

After the Bills travelled to Jacksonville and knocked out the Jaguars, it eliminated the Denver Broncos<\/a> as a possible team the Steelers could face. The Broncos, who hold the No. 1 seed in the AFC, will draw the lowest seed remaining in the field for the divisional round.<\/p>\n

Since the Steelers have the No. 4 seed and the Bills have the No. 6 seed, Pittsburgh can not face the Broncos on the round. <\/p>\n

The Steelers would host the Bills if the Los Angeles Chargers defeat the Patriots on Sunday night. If the Patriots win, the Steelers would then head up Foxborough once again in the event they would defeat Houston. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh still has to win, and given they play on Monday, it will almost certainly be a Sunday night they get in the next round of the playoffs, too.<\/p>\n

The Bills won their first road playoff game with Sean McDermott and Josh Allen at the helm by defeating the Jaguars in a hard-fought matchup.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Steelers lost to the Bills in a 26-7 drubbing the first time those teams met weeks ago. The Patriots lost 21-14 in a Week 3 clash in Foxborough where they fumbled the ball four times, with the Steelers recovering all of those fumbles. <\/p>\n

If the Steelers can get past a stingy Houston team, it will be a rematch that will require new tricks to be pulled out in both matchups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers will face either the New England Patriots or Buffalo Bills if they win against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[265,7,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-670003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115879120160152475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670003","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=670003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}