{"id":85393,"date":"2026-01-13T09:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85393\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:39:26","slug":"steelers-afc-playoff-bracket-2026-pittsburghs-run-ends-in-wild-card-vs-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85393\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers AFC playoff bracket 2026: Pittsburgh\u2019s run ends in Wild Card vs. Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">An up and down Steelers season ended with a second-half beatdown at the hands of the Houston Texans defense in the Wild Card round of the NFL Playoffs on Monday Night, with Pittsburgh falling at home 30-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With the loss, the Steelers\u2019 playoff win drought extends to a ninth straight season. The Steelers finished the season with a 10-7 record in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s what the rest of the NFL playoff bracket looks like entering the divisional round of the playoffs. Times and dates were announced following the Steelers\u2019 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 2026 AFC playoff bracket<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday: No. 6 Bills at No. 1 Broncos<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sunday: No. 5. Texans at No. 2 Patriots<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Winners will advance to the AFC Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Card results<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">AFC<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NFC<\/p>\n<p>Divisional bracket<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bills at Broncos \u2014 4:30 p.m. EST on CBS<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">49ers at Seahawks \u2014 8 p.m. on FOX<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Texans at Patriots \u2014 3 p.m. on ESPN<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rams at Bears \u2014 6:30 p.m. on NBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An up and down Steelers season ended with a second-half beatdown at the hands of the Houston Texans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5004,4988,4997,4967,4989,6516,4976,21790,6734,5005,73,75,74,4986,1829,15380],"class_list":{"0":"post-85393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-bills","11":"tag-broncos","12":"tag-chargers","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-nfl-playoffs","16":"tag-panthers","17":"tag-patriots","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","20":"tag-pittsburgh-news","21":"tag-rams","22":"tag-steelers","23":"tag-the-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85393","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=85393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}