{"id":131284,"date":"2026-01-13T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/131284\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:12:09","slug":"rams-will-face-caleb-williams-and-bears-in-nfc-divisional-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/131284\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams will face Caleb Williams and Bears in NFC divisional playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rams<\/a> will play the Chicago Bears in an NFC divisional round game Sunday at Soldier Field in Chicago at 3:30 p.m. PST (NBC, Peacock).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be the first playoff meeting between the teams since the NFC title game at the end of the 1985 season.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 5-seeded <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/rams\/story\/2026-01-10\/matthew-stafford-leads-another-rams-comeback-win-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rams\u2019 victory over the No. 4 Panthers<\/a> on Saturday, combined with the No. 6 San Francisco 49ers\u2019 23-19 victory over the No. 3 Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, set up the game between the Rams and  Bears.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams advanced by defeating the Carolina Panthers, 34-31, in a wild-card game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. The No. 2-seeded Bears, under first-year coach Ben Johnson, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2026-01-10\/caleb-williams-rallies-bears-to-wild-card-playoff-win-over-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated the No. 7 Green Bay Packers<\/a>, 31-27, in another wild-card game  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the game between the Rams and  Bears will play the winner of the game between the 49ers and the top-seeded Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams will play the Chicago Bears in an NFC divisional round game Sunday at Soldier Field in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[43966,11604,16132,11459,67336,423,48,52,51,47,50,49,43828,67335,18158,43965,11706,10947,595,8934,218],"class_list":["post-131284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-america-stadium","tag-bears","tag-caleb-williams","tag-charlotte","tag-chicago-next-weekend","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-n-c","tag-nfc-divisional-playoff","tag-no","tag-panthers","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-saturday","tag-victory","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131284","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=131284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}