{"id":84137,"date":"2026-01-11T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:15","slug":"potential-pittsburgh-steelers-divisional-round-opponent-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84137\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Pittsburgh Steelers divisional round opponent eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> can not play the Denver Broncos<\/a> in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs after the Buffalo Bills <\/a>defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-24 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Since the Bills hold the No. 6 seed, that is a seed lower than the Steelers\u2019 No. 4 seed. The Broncos will draw the lowest seeded team in the playoffs, <\/p>\n

The Steelers can not be the lowest-seeded team, as a result, they can either head to New England to face the Patriots or welcome the Bills to Pittsburgh in a rematch.<\/p>\n

The Steelers would host the Bills if the Los Angeles Chargers defeat the Patriots on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh still has to win, and given they play on Monday, it will almost certainly be a Monday night game they get in the next round of the playoffs, too.<\/p>\n

The Bills won their first road playoff game with Sean McDermott and Josh Allen at the helm by defeating the Jaguars in a hard-fought matchup.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Steelers lost to the Bills in a 26-7 drubbing the first time those teams met weeks ago. The Patriots lost 21-14 in a Week 3 clash in Foxborough where they fumbled the ball four times, with the Steelers recovering all of those fumbles. <\/p>\n

If the Steelers can get past a stingy Houston team, it will be a rematch that will require new tricks to be pulled out in both matchups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers can not play the Denver Broncos in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42141,42142,11195,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-84137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-dsc08405","9":"tag-nflcom","10":"tag-nflraw25","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}