{"id":362979,"date":"2025-12-22T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362979\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:30:10","slug":"nfl-week-16-round-up-results-play-off-picture-updates-as-pittsburgh-steelers-and-jacksonville-jaguars-claim-big-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362979\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Week 16 round-up, results, play-off picture & updates as Pittsburgh Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars claim big wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaguars make a statement & Steelers down Detroit – Sunday’s big storiespublished at 01:40 GMT<\/p>\n

01:40 GMT<\/p>\n

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Impressive Jaguars end Denver’s winning run<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Jaguars pulled off a huge result to win on the road at the Denver Broncos and remain firmly atop the AFC South.<\/p>\n

The Broncos had won 11 on the spin before tonight, but were largely second best in a hugely impressive, and surprising, performance by the Jaguars – who looked the real deal and ready for a deep play-off run.<\/p>\n

Chaotic finish as Steelers stun Lions<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Steelers held on for a massive win on the road at the Detroit Lions in one of the craziest endings you are likely to see.<\/p>\n

An offensive pass interference call ended the game after a long discussion between officials. Certainly one of those you need to see to believe. <\/p>\n

The result tightens the grip on the AFC North for the Steelers while the Lions’ hopes of making the play-offs have taken a huge hit after defeat.<\/p>\n

Panthers edge ahead in NFC South battle<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Carolina Panthers egded out Tampa Bay to replace the Buccaneers on top of the NFC South with a 8-7 record, while the visitors dropped to 7-8.<\/p>\n

The Panthers have not made the play-offs since 2017 and not won the NFC South since 2015, but could have a final-day decider against the Bucs when they meet again in two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n

Bills hang on to close AFC East gap<\/a><\/p>\n

The Buffalo Bills kept the pressure on divisional rivals New England by holding on for a 23-20 win at the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n

Cleveland defensive end Myles Garrett registered a half-sack so one more during the last two games of the regular season would take him past the single-season record of 22.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaguars make a statement & Steelers down Detroit – Sunday’s big storiespublished at 01:40 GMT 01:40 GMT Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-362979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}