{"id":391986,"date":"2026-01-04T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:21:08","slug":"nfl-week-18-live-updates-scores-highlights-playoff-picture-and-draft-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391986\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 18 live updates: Scores, highlights, playoff picture and draft order"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final week of the NFL season is here, and what happens on Sunday will finalize the playoff picture<\/a>. The No. 1 seed in the AFC is up for grabs, the NFC South will be decided by two teams that have already been eliminated from playoff contention, and we’ll of course get a Sunday night thriller between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers. The winner of that game will represent the AFC North in the postseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of potential individual accomplishments<\/a> to keep track of as well. Cleveland Browns star pass rusher Myles Garrett is one sack away from breaking the single-season record, Drake Maye can lock down NFL MVP, Bijan Robinson needs 255 scrimmage yards to break Chris Johnson’s single-season record, and James Cook is looking to become the first Buffalo Bills player to win the rushing title since O.J. Simpson in 1976.<\/p>\n

Follow along in the live blog below as we break down all the action from these 14 games.<\/p>\n

Week 18 schedule<\/p>\n

Saturday scores<\/p>\n

Buccaneers 16, Panthers 14 (Takeaways)<\/a>
Seahawks 13, 49ers 3 (Takeaways)<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday scores<\/p>\n

Browns 20, Bengals 18 (Recap)<\/a>
Giants 34, Cowboys 17 (Recap)<\/a>
Vikings 16, Packers 3 (Recap)<\/a>
Texans 38, Colts 30 (Recap)<\/a>
Falcons 19, Saints 17 (Recap)<\/a>
Jaguars 41, Titans 7 (Recap)<\/a><\/p>\n

Cardinals at Rams (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Lions at Bears (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Chiefs at Raiders (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Chargers at Broncos (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Dolphins at Patriots (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Jets at Bills (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Commanders at Eagles (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a><\/p>\n

Ravens at Steelers (8:20 p.m., Preview)<\/a><\/p>\n

NFL playoff pictureAFC standingsz-Denver Broncos<\/a>\u00a0(13-3)z-New England Patriots<\/a>\u00a0(13-3)z-Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0(13-4)Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>\u00a0(9-7)x-Houston Texans (12-5)x-Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>\u00a0(11-5)x-Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u00a0(11-5)NFC standingsz-Seattle Seahawks<\/a>\u00a0(14-3)z-Chicago Bears<\/a>\u00a0(11-5)z-Philadelphia Eagles (11-5)z-Carolina Panthersx-San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u00a0(12-5)x-Los Angeles Rams<\/a>\u00a0(11-5)x-Green Bay Packers (9-7-1)<\/p>\n

x-clinched playoff berth; z-clinched division<\/p>\n

2026 NFL Draft orderLas Vegas Raiders (2-14)
Tennessee Titans (3-14)New York Jets (3-13)Arizona Cardinals (3-13)New York Giants (4-13)Washington Commanders (4-12)Cleveland Browns (5-12)New Orleans Saints (6-11)
Cincinnati Bengals (6-11)Kansas City Chiefs (6-10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final week of the NFL season is here, and what happens on Sunday will finalize the playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,631,1238,1256,1243,1246,1240,1233,1239,209763,1249,1242,593,203033,209764,144596,169241,209761,209760,1260,1262,1254,85,1272,209765,209089,209762],"class_list":["post-391986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-denver-broncos","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-myles-garrett-sack-record","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft-order","tag-nfl-individual-records","tag-nfl-live-blog","tag-nfl-playoff-picture","tag-nfl-scores-live","tag-nfl-week-18-live-updates","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders","tag-week-18-nfl-games","tag-week-18-playoff-scenarios","tag-week-18-record-chases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391986","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=391986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}