{"id":670223,"date":"2026-01-12T01:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:46:16","slug":"potential-pittsburgh-steelers-divisional-round-opponent-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670223\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Pittsburgh Steelers divisional round opponent eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> can not play the Denver Broncos<\/a> in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs after the Buffalo Bills <\/a>defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-24 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Since the Bills hold the No. 6 seed, that is a seed lower than the Steelers\u2019 No. 4 seed. The Broncos will draw the lowest seeded team in the playoffs, <\/p>\n

The Steelers can not be the lowest-seeded team, as a result, they can either head to New England to face the Patriots or welcome the Bills to Pittsburgh in a rematch.<\/p>\n

The Steelers would host the Bills if the Los Angeles Chargers defeat the Patriots on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh still has to win, and given they play on Monday, it will almost certainly be a Monday night game 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 can not play the Denver Broncos in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,25362,7,6,83599,31185],"class_list":["post-670223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-dsc08405","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nflcom","tag-nflraw25"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115879607328492457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670223","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=670223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}