When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Christmas Day, the Buffalo Bills lost all hope to earn the No. 1 seed in the AFC. With the Chiefs currently sitting at 15-1 on the year and the Bills having a 13-3 record,
Buffalo remains in sole possession of the No. 2 seed in the AFC. Pittsburgh and Baltimore are each two games back at 10-5. One of those teams will win the AFC North, and one will be a wild card and guaranteed to be behind the Bills for playoff seeding.
There are three teams of interest for the Bills in the AFC playoff picture: the Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens. They all play on Christmas Day. The games will give Buffalo clarity on its seeding possibilities and whether to rest starters in the final two regular season games.
It's official: The Kansas City Chiefs will be the number-one seed in the AFC playoffs for the fourth time in the Patrick Mahomes era. The other three times the Chiefs held the top seed in the playoffs, they went to the Super Bowl in two of those years (2020 and 2022) and won the Super Bowl once (2022).
Beat the Chiefs and the Broncos will end their playoff drought. But Carson Wentz is capable of matching the spoiler performance Bailey Zappe from last Christmas Eve.
The Bills can lock up the No. 2 seed in the AFC with a win on Sunday. The Ravens are two games behind the Bills and hold the head-to-head tiebreaker. That means if the Ravens win in Week 18, the Bills would have to win against either the Jets or Patriots to clinch the No. 2 seed.
Based on the yearly rotation, the Bills are playing the four teams from the AFC North and NFC South divisions in 2025, and because they won the AFC East again, they get a first-place schedule.
The Chiefs traveled to face the Steelers in Week 17, and there was plenty to take away from the Christmas Day contest.
Buffalo’s win on Sunday against the Jets marked the third instance of the team going undefeated at home. What happened the first two times the Bills went undefeated at home? Here’s a look. The Bills went undefeated at Rich Stadium in 1988 and finished the year 12-4. It was Buffalo’s first winning season since 1981.
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