2023 NFL playoffs: Sorting six teams in NFC wild-card bracket - ESPN

01.12.2023 - 12:47 espn.com

The first five spots in the NFC playoff picture are basically settled. Barring something truly catastrophic, we know the 8-3 San Francisco 49ers and 8-3 Detroit Lions are getting into the NFL postseason, almost surely as division champs.

The 10-1 Philadelphia Eagles and 8-3 Dallas Cowboys are getting in — one will be the NFC East champion, and the other will likely be the top wild-card team and 5-seed in the conference.

Some team, by law, has to win the NFC South. Right now, that's the 5-6 Atlanta Falcons. That's five spots spoken for in the bracket.

The other two spots? Those are going down to the wire. There are six teams with a realistic chance of landing one of those two wild-card berths, with ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI) giving them somewhere between a 20% and 60% chance of playing postseason football.

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