2025–26 NFL playoffs

The National Football League playoffs for the 2025 season began on January 10, 2026, and concluded with Super Bowl LX on February 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

This is the first postseason since 2014 not to feature the Kansas City Chiefs. Additionally, it marks the first postseason since 1998 not to feature Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes.

It is also the first postseason since 2022 to not feature either number one seed from the previous season – the Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions.

With the Los Angeles Rams and Carolina Panthers facing each other in the NFC Wild Card Round, the Rams became the first team in NFL history to face every team within their respective conference in the postseason at least twice.

With the Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers facing each other in the AFC Wild Card Round, the Steelers became the fifth team in NFL history (Rams, Eagles, Bills, Chiefs) to face every team within their respective conference in the postseason at least once.

A total of 12 fourth-quarter lead changes occurred in the first four of the six wild card games played. These four games (Rams–Panthers, Packers–Bears, Bills–Jaguars and 49ers–Eagles) were decided by a winning touchdown inside the final three minutes.

Two of the four divisional round games went into overtime, the second time this has occurred since the AFL–NFL merger. In both games (Bills–Broncos and Rams–Bears), the winning team started overtime punting on their first drive, intercepted the ball on defense, then kicked a game-winning field goal on their second drive.

The conference championships were unwatchable in parts of the southern United States due to power outages that resulted from a series of winter storms.

For the fourth time in eight years, both conference championship games were decided by seven points or less.