Back to the Top News Newsfeed

NFL Playoff Picture 2022: Examining Latest Scenarios and Top Bracket Busters

While the highest seeds in the NFL playoffs are granted the easiest paths to the Super Bowl, that guarantees nothing.

This is, after all, the league where on any given Sunday—or Saturday or, this year, Monday—any postseason participant can knock off another.

Every year, there are potential bracket busters lurking among the lower seeds, and we're here to identify one from each conference after laying out the playoff picture ahead of Wild Card Weekend.

Playoff Picture

    AFC

    No. 1 Tennessee Titans: Bye

    No. 7 Pittsburgh Steelers at No.