NFL Week 17 scores: AFC North, NFC South up for grabs as playoff picture almost complete

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Only 1 much week of the 2025 NFL regular play remains, arsenic Week 17 brought astir immoderate much playoff implications and adjacent 2026 NFL Draft cardinal positions.

The biggest takeaway from the slate of Week 17 is that 2 divisions successful the NFL — the AFC North and NFC South — volition beryllium determined by whoever wins cardinal matchups successful Week 18.

First, it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers getting upset by the Cleveland Browns astatine home, arsenic Aaron Rodgers couldn’t find Marquez Valdes-Scantling connected a arguable game-ending play successful the extremity zone. That nonaccomplishment sets up the AFC North rubric crippled betwixt the Steelers and Baltimore Ravens, which is lone perchance acknowledgment to a roadworthy triumph wherever Derrick Henry scored 4 touchdowns against the Green Bay Packers.

Then, contempt some the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers losing their respective matchups, the NFL tiebreakers marque their Week 18 bout the NFC South rubric game.

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Aaron Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Steelers reacts during the 2nd 4th of the crippled against the Cleveland Browns astatine Huntington Bank Field connected Dec. 28, 2025, successful Cleveland. (Nick Cammett/Getty Images)

And portion everyone was focused connected the NFL playoff picture, the two-game 4 o’clock slate gave america the New York Giants against the Las Vegas Raiders, the victor of which owning the No. 1 wide prime successful the NFL Draft.

The Giants would’ve solidified the prime with a loss, but Jaxson Dart and the Giants’ discourtesy blew retired Geno Smith and the Raiders to relinquish the pick, which present belongs successful Sin City.

NFL WEEK 16 SCORES: PLAYOFF PRESSURE LEADS TO THRILLING FINISHES ACROSS LEAGUE

Here's however each NFL crippled played out:

THURSDAY, DEC. 25

- DALLAS COWBOYS 30, WASHINGTON COMMANDERS 23

- MINNESOTA VIKINGS 23, DETROIT LIONS 10

- DENVER BRONCOS 20, KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 13

Dak Prescott (4) of the Dallas Cowboys celebrates aft his team's touchdown against the Washington Commanders successful the 2nd 4th of a crippled astatine Northwest Stadium connected Dec. 25, 2025 successful Landover, Maryland. (Greg Fiume/Getty Images)

SATURDAY, DEC. 27

- HOUSTON TEXANS 20, LOS ANGELES CHARGERS 16

- BALTIMORE RAVENS 41, GREEN BAY PACKERS 24

SUNDAY, DEC. 28

- CINCINNATI BENGALS 37, ARIZONA CARDINALS 14

- CLEVELAND BROWNS 13, PITTSBURGH STEELERS 7

- NEW ORLEANS SAINTS 34, TENNESSEE TITANS 26

- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS 23, INDIANAPOLIS COLTS 17

- MIAMI DOLPHINS 20, TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS 17

- NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 42, NEW YORK JETS 10

- SEATTLE SEAHAWKS 27, CAROLINA PANTHERS 10

- NEW YORK GIANTS 34, LAS VEGAS RAIDERS 10

- PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 13, BUFFALO BILLS 12

- SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS-CHICAGO BEARS (TBD)

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