Nfl Football Playoff Bracket 2021

The league expanded its playoff system from a 12 team to a 14 team tournament adding a third wild card team for each conference for the first time since the 2001 season and only awarding each conference s top seed a first round bye the wild card round was thus extended from.

Nfl football playoff bracket 2021. Kansas city chiefs 12 1 no. The nfl playoffs work a little different than the nba playoff bracket or the march madness tournament bracket the first round runs as you would think the 1 and 2 seeds get byes the 4th seed plays the 5th seed and the 3rd. 4 tennessee titans 9 4 vs.

Each conference will have an extra playoff team creating a total of 14 nfl. While it s still too early to know the nfl playoff bracket here s a look at what the first round matchups would look like if the postseason started today after the end of week 14 action. In the nfl s expanded playoffs for the 2021 postseason seven teams from each conference make the field.

Nfl week 15 schedule. Nfl hasn t adjusted the playoff format since 2002 when the texans joined the league and the nfl split into eight four team divisions. 1 seed first round bye.

The schedule includes the matchups date time and tv. Playoff picture standings bracket and clinching scenarios for every team forbes 4 days ago. The 2021 nfl playoff picture is starting to crystallize as four teams having already clinched a berth and a handful more are eyeing up a spot on the postseason bracket if things play out in their.

Playoff bracket format. 5 cleveland browns 9 4. When the 2021 nfl playoffs begin it will look significantly different than a typical postseason for nfc and afc teams.

Six playoff teams in each conference has been around since. The vikings have moved in and out of the final playoff spot in each of the past two weeks. That s different from recent years when six teams from the afc and nfc each participated.