ESPN Analytics has revealed its Matchup Predictor numbers for the six NFL postseason games this week, and they offer some interesting win probabilities.

After 272 regular season games, the 2026 NFL playoffs have arrived, starting with Wild Card Weekend. Seven teams that made the postseason as

Here in the Picks Department, we’re still trying to get through the 2025 NFL season with winning records overall and in Best Bets. Week 18 figures to make that difficult with its variety of playoff and tanking scenarios. Unless those things turn out to make it easier.

However Sunday night, the 272nd and final game of the regular season, will have winner-take-all stakes as the archrival Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens vie for the AFC North title in the latest installment of their border way. The loser goes gets nothing.

The NFL playoff picture will finalize after the NFL Week 18 schedule. The top seeds in both the AFC and NFC are still at stake, as is who is going to take the NFC South and AFC North title and the playoff spot that comes with it.

NFL Week 18 could very well get crazy. There's no other way to say that as we look at both the NFL Playoff picture and the potential effects on the NFL Draft or

NFL Week 18 picks, score predictions for every game this week, including Lions-Bears, Chargers-Broncos, Colts-Texans, Ravens-Steelers, Seahawks-49ers.

There is nothing quite like January football, and when playoff football features one of the greatest rivalries in NFL history, fireworks are inevitable.