A combination of their Thursday Night Football loss to the Seahawks and the 49ers’ Monday Night Football road win over the Colts in Week 16 slid the Rams from the No. 1 seed to the No. 6 seed in the NFC playoff picture.<\/p>\n
Overall, five NFC teams \u2013 including Los Angeles \u2013 have clinched a playoff berth so far.<\/p>\n
Here’s what that full NFC playoff picture looks like and how various Week 17 matchups \u2013 including the Rams’ against the Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday Night Football \u2013 will impact the playoff picture.<\/p>\n
\n No. 1 seed – Seattle Seahawks (clinched playoff berth)<\/p>\n
Seattle (12-3) gained control of the top spot in the conference, and clinched a playoff spot, with their win over Los Angeles last week.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks can clinch the NFC West division title and the conference’s No. 1 seed in Week 17 with a win, a Rams loss or tie, and a 49ers tie with the Bears.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks can just clinch the NFC West with:<\/p>\n
A win, a Rams loss or tie, and a 49ers loss or tie, OR
\nA tie, a Rams loss and a 49ers loss<\/p>\n
\n No. 2 seed – Chicago Bears (clinched playoff berth)<\/p>\n
The 11-4 Bears kept possession of the No. 2 seed for another week after their wild 22-16 overtime win over the Packers last Saturday night made possible by an improbable 46-yard, game-winning touchdown pass from Caleb Williams to D.J. Moore.<\/p>\n
Chicago can clinch the NFC North division title with a win, or a Packers loss, or a tie and a Packers tie.<\/p>\n
\n No. 3 seed – Philadelphia Eagles (clinched division, and by extension playoff berth)<\/p>\n
10-5 Philadelphia’s 29-18 win over Washington punched its ticket to the playoffs as the NFC East division winner.<\/p>\n
\n No. 4 seed – Carolina Panthers<\/p>\n
The Panthers (8-7) went from being on the outside looking in to the No. 4 seed thanks to their 23-20 home win over the Buccaneers last Sunday, displacing Tampa Bay from this same spot.<\/p>\n
Carolina can clinch the NFC South division title this week with a win and a Tampa Bay loss or tie, or a tie and a Tampa Bay loss.<\/p>\n
\n No. 5 seed \u2013 San Francisco 49ers (clinched playoff berth)<\/p>\n
As noted above, San Francisco’s Monday Night Football win over Indianapolis (making them 11-4) clinched a playoff berth.<\/p>\n
\n No. 6 seed \u2013 Los Angeles Rams (clinched playoff berth)<\/p>\n
Since Los Angeles and San Francisco share the same overall record and the two teams split the two head-to-head meetings this season, the next tiebreaker that kicked in was the division record \u2013 San Francisco’s is 4-1 while L.A.’s is 3-2.<\/p>\n
\n No. 7 seed – Green Bay Packers<\/p>\n
Green Bay (9-5-1) remained the No. 7 seed for another week following its overtime loss to Chicago. It can clinch a playoff berth this week with a win or tie, or a Lions loss or tie.<\/p>\n
\n Key Week 17 matchups<\/p>\n
Between division title and playoff berth-clinching scenarios, plenty is at stake across the NFC in Week 17.<\/p>\n
Other games to watch besides Rams-Falcons this week:<\/p>\n
Ravens at Packers (5 p.m. PT Saturday, Peacock): Green Bay’s result has ramifications for not only its playoff hopes, but Chicago’s seeding as well.
\nSeahawks at Panthers (10 a.m. PT Sunday, CBS): Carolina needs a win and a Tampa Bay loss or tie (or a tie and a Tampa Bay loss) to clinch the NFC South, and by extension, a playoff berth. A Panthers victory also helps L.A.’s chances of reclaiming a top-three seed.
\nBuccaneers at Dolphins (10 a.m. PT Sunday, FOX): Besides the aforementioned clinch scenario for the Panthers, the Bucs need a win to get back into the playoff picture.
\nBears at 49ers (5:20 p.m. PT Sunday, NBC): Chicago can win its division with a victory over San Francisco. A Bears win would also help the Rams move ahead of the 49ers in the conference standings, provided the Rams take care of business themselves in prime time Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A combination of their Thursday Night Football loss to the Seahawks and the 49ers’ Monday Night Football road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[949,48,52,51,47,50,49,57705],"class_list":["post-108839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-football","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-rams-at-atlanta-falcons-2025-reg-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}