Wild Card Weekend will kick off in North Carolina and end in Pittsburgh. The NFL on Sunday night announced the schedule for the opening round of the playoffs, which begins with the NFC's fourth-seeded Carolina Panthers hosting the No. 5 Los Angeles Rams on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET on FOX.

Even before the 2025 NFL playoffs kicked off on Saturday, the field looked different. How would the first postseason without Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning since 1998 feel? After a wild-card slate full of late-game heroics and quirky stat lines,

From the Texans' dominant defense to the Eagles' flop of a repeat bid, the NFL playoffs' wild-card round offered up plenty of thrills.

The NFL chose to lean into its burgeoning relationship with Prime Video’s owner, Amazon, granting the league’s longest-running rivalry to its newest weekly partner.