NFL Wild Card Round 2027

Wild Card Round of the 2027 NFL playoffs: 6 games on Jan 16–18, 2027; the higher seed hosts all six games. Matchups are set the night the regular season ends (Jan 10, 2027) and appear here immediately.

Wild Card Round Schedule and Scores

Matchups will appear here as soon as the playoff field is set.

Projected Wild Card Round matchups

AFC

7Cincinnati Bengalsat2Buffalo Bills

AFC

6Pittsburgh Steelersat3Cleveland Browns

AFC

5Denver Broncosat4Jacksonville Jaguars

NFC

7Green Bay Packersat2San Francisco 49ers

NFC

6Detroit Lionsat3New York Giants

NFC

5Chicago Bearsat4Carolina Panthers

How the Wild Card Round Works

Wild Card Weekend opens the postseason with six games in three days. Division winners seeded 2, 3 and 4 host the three wild cards, while the No. 1 seed in each conference rests. Upsets are common: lower seeds win roughly a third of Wild Card games.

How to Watch

Wild Card Round games are broadcast on CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN/ABC and Prime Video (one game streams exclusively on Prime Video). Each network streams its own games (Paramount+ for CBS, Peacock for NBC, the ESPN app for ESPN/ABC), and live-TV packages such as YouTube TV, Fubo, Hulu + Live TV and Sling carry all of them. NFL+ streams every game on phones and tablets. Exact channel assignments per game are published with the matchups and shown on each game page.

Where This Round Sits

Recent Wild Card Results

Everything on this Wild Card Round page updates automatically: matchups when they are set, scores while games are on, results when they end. The full bracket shows how this round connects to the rest of the 2027 NFL playoffs.