NFL 2021 Playoff Picture: Here are the 14 projected playoff teams with Bills and Rams winning their divisions

After a wild Week 17, there’s not going to be a lot drama left for the ultimate week of the 2021 NFL season and that is as a result of 11 of the NFL’s 14 playoff berths have now been clinched.

Truly, there undoubtedly may nonetheless be some drama and that is as a result of there are nonetheless lots of of seeding potentialities even though there are solely three accessible playoff spots. As a matter of reality, there are 256 seeding scenarios in the AFC alone.

So who’s going to get these closing three spots and the way will the ultimate playoff seedings shake out? That is the place our projections are available. Proper now, the Packers are the one staff that is aware of which seed they’re going to be within the playoffs and that is as a result of they clinched the NFC’s prime seed on Sunday.

Each different seed is up for grabs. That will help you work out how that is all going to play out, we will mission the 14 playoff groups together with their seedings. These projections are based mostly on knowledge from number-cruncher Stephen Oh of SportsLine.com. Oh plugged some numbers into his SportsLine laptop and simulated Week 18 greater than 10,000 occasions, and utilizing these numbers, we projected all the playoff area.

With that in thoughts, let’s get to this week’s playoff projections. Truly, earlier than we do this, here is a mock draft that you simply may wish to learn in case your favourite staff has already been eradicated from the playoffs.

As for everybody else, let’s get to the projection.

Be aware: Keep in mind, it is a projection based mostly on how we expect the remainder of the common season will play out. If you wish to see the present playoff standings, make sure to click on right here. For a breakdown of the present playoff image, make sure to click on right here. SportsLine simulates each sport main as much as the playoffs 10,000 occasions, and you may see the model’s picks both straight up and against the spread here.

AFC Playoff Projection

This is an inventory of the playoff probabilities for all the opposite AFC groups (their proportion possibilities of entering into the playoffs is listed subsequent to them in parentheses): Raiders (49.6%), Steelers (6.6%), Ravens (2.4%), Dolphins (ELIMINATED), Browns ((ELIMINATED), Broncos (ELIMINATED), Jaguars (ELIMINATED), Jets (ELIMINATED), Texans (ELIMINATED).

NFC Playoff Projection

This is an inventory of the playoff probabilities for all the opposite NFC groups (their proportion possibilities of entering into the playoffs is listed subsequent to them in parentheses): Saints (36.5%), Vikings (ELIMINATED), Washington (ELIMINATED), Falcons (ELIMINATED), Seahawks (ELIMINATED), Giants (ELIMINATED), Panthers (ELIMINATED), Bears (ELIMINATED), Lions (ELIMINATED).