Format, how 14 teams qualify, seeding, matchups, bye weeks, and path to Super Bowl. Breakdown for 2025-26 season.

We used the ESPN Football Power Index's most likely simulation to project Weeks 16, 17 and 18 -- and how the NFL playoff field could stack up.

The Cowboys’ last playoff appearance was in 2023, when they lost in the Wild Card round under previous head coach Mike McCarthy. Dallas is now in its first season with Brian Schottenheimer as its head coach. He joined the team in 2022 as an analyst.

Every television show and many other forms of entertainment schedule themselves to stay out of the ratings behemoth that is the NFL. College football is one of them. The sport already schedules most its marquee postseason events to avoid the NFL;

With Philip Rivers returning to the NFL, one key part of his Indianapolis Colts contract is a reset of his health insurance from the league, which was set to expire.

January 27: East-West Shrine Bowl, Ford Center at The Star, Frisco, Texas. January 31: Senior Bowl, Hancock Whitney Stadium, Mobile, Alabama. February 3: Pro Bowl Games powered by Verizon, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California. February 8: Super Bowl LX, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California.