2025 NFL playoff predictions: Picks for 8 division winners, 6 wild cards

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If you’re a football fan, there’s one thing that probably made you nod knowingly when you learned of Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce: the timing.

With five-plus months of juicy on-field action about to kick off, now is when you want to tie up those loose ends that will be harder to squeeze between NFL RedZone sessions and prime-time thrillers. Organize your socks. Tidy the garage. Lock in your personal and/or world-shattering plans.

Or, if you run an NFL team, you’ve been finalizing your roster by making cuts, filling holes and swinging trades, some of which can be pretty headline-worthy themselves. The 2025 NFL season is about to take real, irrevocable shape. The waning days of August and early days of September are for taking care of any outstanding business — like making playoff picks.

Luckily for you, NFL.com’s analysts are as on top of their game as The Most Famous Couple in Recorded History. We’ve projected the winners of all eight divisions, as you’ll see below, plus the six wild-card teams that will round out the final postseason field.

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Participating analysts: Keegan Abdoo, Jack Andrade, Michael Baca, Mike Band, Judy Battista, Jeremy Bergman, Ali Bhanpuri, Tom Blair, David Carr, Brooke Cersosimo, Jeffri Chadiha, Eric Edholm, Gennaro Filice, Michael F. Florio, Christian Gonzales, Grant Gordon, Anthony Holzman-Escareno, Maurice Jones-Drew, Dante Koplowitz-Fleming, Bobby Kownack, Matt Okada, Dan Parr, Kevin Patra, Adam Rank, Chad Reuter, Gregg Rosenthal, Marc Ross, Nick Shook, Lance Zierlein.

NOTE: Odds are courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook and are current as of 11:00 a.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 29.

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