NFL Wild Card Weekend Power Rankings
Ranking the 6 NFL wild card match ups from least to most exciting
Now that the regular season is over, we'll focus our weekly power rankings on the teams that made the playoffs.
Our rankings are driven by who teams are today, rather than what they’ve done over the course of the regular season. We’ll also factor in every team’s path to winning the Super Bowl, as well as their current injury situations.
If the NFL has scriptwriters,
they got in their bags for the wild card round.
Week 18 decided several teams' fates, whether that meant they'd be eliminated from playoff contention or they'd clinch one of the 14 playoff spots.
Twelve teams will now battle it out in the first round, with both the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers receiving a bye week for securing their No. 1 seed in the AFC and NFC, respectively.
Let's rank the six matchups in the AFC and NFC from least to most captivating, at least on paper:
6. No. 7 Pittsburgh Steelers at No. 2 Buffalo Bills
5. No. 7 Green Bay
Packers at No. 2 Dallas Cowboys
4. No. 5 Philadelphia Eagles at No. 4 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
3. No. 6 Miami Dolphins at No. 3 Kansas City Chiefs
2. No. 5 Cleveland Browns at No. 4 Houston Texans
1. No. 6 Los Angeles Rams at No. 3 Detroit Lions