Playoffs season 18
CHAMPIONSHIP
DIVISIONAL ROUND
WILD CARD ROUND
Wild Card: In this round, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth.
Divisional Round: In the Divisional Round, the division winner 1 in each conference plays the lowest-seeded remaining team in the same conference, leaving the remaining two teams in the same conference to face each other.
Conference Championships: The two surviving teams from each conference’s divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games (hosted by the higher seed).
Playoff leaders
| Jacoby Brissett | NE | 664 | Dwayne Haskins Jr | WAS | 552 | Cam Newton | CAR | 471 | Lamar Jackson | BAL | 342 | Mitchell Trubisky | CHI | 304 |
| Terry McLaurin | WAS | 312 | MyCole Pruitt | NE | 190 | Delanie Walker | BAL | 153 | D.J. Moore | CAR | 141 | Curtis Samuel | CAR | 129 |
| Bryce Love | WAS | 264 | Devonta Freeman | NE | 219 | D'Onta Foreman | NE | 152 | Christian McCaffrey | CAR | 140 | Todd Gurley II | LAR | 128 |
| Brian Burns | CAR | 3.0 | Khalil Mack | CHI | 2.0 | Calais Campbell | BAL | 2.0 | Jonathan Allen | WAS | 2.0 | Jermaine Carter Jr | CAR | 2.0 |
| Richard Sherman | NE | 3 | Reuben Foster | WAS | 2 | Tavon Young | BAL | 2 | Shaun Dion Hamilton | WAS | 2 | Mike Overstreet | LV | 1 |