During the owners meetings down in Florida earlier in the offseason, zero of the Detroit Lions’ three rule proposals for the 2025 season passed. The league declined the proposal to get rid of automatic first downs on illegal contact, and the opted to table their other two proposals—a change to how injured reserve works and a drastic change to the NFL’s playoff seeding policy.
Well, according to NFL insider Albert Breer, the owners are expected to vote on the NFL playoff seeding change next week at meetings in Minneapolis.
In short, the proposal keeps the NFL playoff policy that four division winners and three Wild Card teams make up the seven postseason teams in each conference.