2025 NFL playoff schedule, bracket: Dates, times of games as NFL playoff picture begins on Wild Card Weekend

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The 2025 NFL playoffs begin today! This year’s postseason field will include several fresh faces with the Washington Commanders, Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers all set to compete for Super Bowl LIX. There are also plenty of familiar teams in the field, of course. Among them are the Kansas City Chiefs, a team that’s in the playoffs for the 10th straight season.

The Chiefs are also a team gunning to become the first in NFL history to win three straight Super Bowls.

The postseason begins on Saturday with the Houston Texans hosting the Los Angeles Chargers on CBS and Paramount+. Of the seven games being played on Wild Card Weekend, two will air on CBS, including Sunday’s early matchup that will see the Broncos traveling to Buffalo to face the Bills.

The wild-card round will also see Amazon streaming its first playoff game ever and that will come on Saturday night when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Baltimore Ravens for the third time this season.

The Bills (-9) opened as the second-biggest favorite on Wild Card Weekend behind only the Ravens (-9.5 vs. Steelers).

The final game of Wild Card Weekend will be played Monday, Jan. 13 with the Los Angeles Rams facing the Minnesota Vikings. The game was supposed to be played in L.A., but with wild fires raging in Southern California, the NFL moved the game to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The NFL’s decision to relocate the game marks the first time since 1936 that the league has moved a playoff game to a different city.

The Philadelphia Eagles (-4.5 vs. Green Bay Packers) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-3 vs. Washington Commanders) will also be hosting games on Wild Card Weekend. The Eagles game against the Packers and Washington’s game against Tampa Bay will both be rematches from Week 1 when the Eagles and Bucs both came out on top.

Let’s take a look at the complete 2025 NFL playoffs schedule.