NFL playoff predictor 2026

Pick the winners of the 208 games left in the 2026 NFL regular season and the seven seeds in each conference recompute with the league's tiebreakers. If the season ended today, the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers would be the top seeds, and the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams would hold the last spots.

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Seeds if the season ended today

AFC

  1. 1Chiefs4-0
  2. 2Jaguars3-1
  3. 3Bills3-1
  4. 4Browns3-1
  5. 5Ravens3-1
  6. 6Raiders3-1
  7. 7Patriots2-2

Next: Broncos 2-2, Steelers 2-2, Colts 2-2

Wild card: Patriots at Jaguars · Raiders at Bills · Ravens at Browns; Chiefs has the bye.

NFC

  1. 149ers4-0
  2. 2Vikings4-0
  3. 3Giants3-1
  4. 4Panthers2-2
  5. 5Bears3-1
  6. 6Seahawks3-1
  7. 7Rams2-2

Next: Falcons 2-2, Lions 2-2, Packers 2-2

Wild card: Rams at Vikings · Seahawks at Giants · Bears at Panthers; 49ers has the bye.

Ties broken

  • Browns ahead of Ravens at 3-1: division record
  • Steelers ahead of Bengals at 2-2: head-to-head
  • Jaguars ahead of Bills, Browns at 3-1: conference record
  • Bills ahead of Browns at 3-1: conference record
  • Ravens ahead of Raiders at 3-1: conference record
  • Patriots ahead of Steelers, Bengals, Colts, Broncos at 2-2: conference record
  • Broncos ahead of Steelers, Bengals, Colts at 2-2: conference record
  • Steelers ahead of Bengals, Colts at 2-2: strength of victory
  • Colts ahead of Bengals at 2-2: strength of victory
  • Lions ahead of Packers at 2-2: conference record
  • Panthers ahead of Falcons at 2-2: head-to-head
  • 49ers ahead of Vikings at 4-0: points ranking in the conference

How NFL playoff seeding works

  • Seven clubs from each conference make the playoffs: the four division winners and three wild cards.
  • The division winners take seeds 1 to 4 by record, whatever the wild cards' records; the wild cards are seeds 5 to 7.
  • Seed 1 has a bye. In the wild-card round 2 hosts 7, 3 hosts 6 and 4 hosts 5; seed 1 then hosts the lowest seed left.
  • Ties go to the rulebook, division ties first. Every NFL tiebreaker step, with today's ties.

Questions

How does the playoff predictor break ties?

With the NFL's own steps. Clubs tied in a division go by head-to-head, division record, common games, conference record, strength of victory and strength of schedule. Wild-card ties first keep only the best club of each division, then go by head-to-head (a sweep, with three or more clubs), conference record, common games (four or more) and the same strengths. When one club drops out of a tie of three, the other two start over at step one. Each tie the board breaks is listed under the seeds with the step that settled it.

Does a tie count?

Yes: a tie counts as half a win and half a loss, as the league counts it. Tap Tie under a game to pick one.

What about point differential?

Only the last steps of the tiebreakers use points, and the predictor gives them the real points of games already played; picked games have no score. Two clubs still level after all of that are ordered by the coin toss, and the board says so.

Can I share my season?

Copy a link to this season: the link carries every pick, and whoever opens it sees the same seeds. The picks also stay in this browser.

When does it update?

Finals load as games end, and the page checks for them every hour. A game already played cannot be picked.