{"id":347598,"date":"2025-12-14T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347598\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:17:07","slug":"nfl-playoff-scenarios-for-week-15-which-afc-nfc-teams-can-clinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347598\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL playoff scenarios for Week 15: Which AFC, NFC teams can clinch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final weeks in the NFL are coming in the 2025 season. And although the current NFL playoff picture<\/a> is very much muddled, there are actual postseason spots up for grabs in Week 15.<\/p>\n

Three teams this week have a chance to get into the playoffs if everything goes their way, with two in the AFC and one in the NFC, which shows you how tight everything is right now.<\/p>\n

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So it\u2019s time once again for that always fun and sometimes complicated breakdown of what needs to happen for certain teams heading into this week. Let\u2019s break it all down by team and scenario:<\/p>\n

AFC playoff scenarios<\/p>\n

The New England Patriots can clinch the AFC East if:<\/p>\n

The Patriots can clinch a playoff spot with any of the following:<\/p>\n

A tie and a Chargers loss<\/p>\n

A tie and a Colts<\/a> loss\/tie<\/p>\n

A Texans loss\/tie and Colts loss\/tie (if both teams tie, that’s no good)<\/p>\n

The Denver Broncos<\/a> can clinch a playoff spot with any of the following:<\/p>\n

A tie and a Chargers loss<\/p>\n

A tie and a Texans loss\/tie<\/p>\n

A tie and a Colts loss\/tie<\/p>\n

A Texans loss\/tie and a Colts loss\/tie (if both teams tie, that’s no good)<\/p>\n

NFC<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Rams<\/a> can clinch a playoff spot with:<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on For The Win: NFL playoff scenarios for Week 15 for AFC and NFC teams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final weeks in the NFL are coming in the 2025 season. And although the current NFL playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1261,17470,5354,1256,23168,1263,593,89025,85,5359,110545],"class_list":{"0":"post-347598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-chargers","12":"tag-colts","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-los-angeles-rams","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-playoff-spot","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-texans","20":"tag-the-new-england-patriots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}