NFL Week 16 scores: Playoff pressure leads to thrilling finishes across league

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Thrilling games were played crossed the NFL successful Week 16, starting connected Thursday nighttime with the Seattle Seahawks’ overtime triumph implicit the Los Angeles Rams and into the weekend.

The NFL playoff representation came into absorption arsenic good with much teams being eliminated from contention and the main players entering the spotlight.

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Seattle Seahawks choky extremity Eric Saubert, 2nd from left, celebrates aft making a two-point conversion during overtime successful an NFL shot crippled against the Los Angeles Rams, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, successful Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

The AFC’s postseason bracket is foggy astatine best. There is lone 1 squad that clinched a berth going into Week 16 and that was the Denver Broncos. There are 5 teams with astatine slightest 11 wins and six teams with astatine slightest 10 wins.

The Detroit Lions’ adjacent nonaccomplishment to the Pittsburgh Steelers meant they were surviving connected a supplication to get into the playoffs. It besides meant the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers clinched berths. The Seahawks, Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams are besides successful arsenic of Week 16.

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Here’s however the games played out.

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025

Seattle Seahawks 38, Los Angeles Rams 37 (OT)

Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025

Chicago Bears' Caleb Williams gets distant from Green Bay Packers' Lukas van Ness during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Huh)

Philadelphia Eagles 29, Washington Commanders 18
Chicago Bears 22, Green Bay Packers 16 (OT)

Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025

Buffalo Bills 23, Cleveland Browns 20
Los Angeles Chargers 34, Dallas Cowboys 17
Tennessee Titans 26, Kansas City Chiefs 9
Cincinnati Bengals 45, Miami Dolphins 21

Cincinnati Bengals backmost Joe Burrow, left, scrambles during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, successful Miami Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

New Orleans Saints 29, New York Jets 6
Minnesota Vikings 16, New York Giants 13
Carolina Panthers 23, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20
Jacksonville Jaguars 34, Denver Broncos 20
Atlanta Falcons 26, Arizona Cardinals 19
Houston Texans 23, Las Vegas Raiders 21
Pittsburgh Steelers 29, Detroit Lions 24
New England Patriots @ Baltimore Ravens

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