Must-win game for Lions? Can Dallas still make the postseason? Picks, predictions and stats for every Week 16 game.

For Chiefs fans searching for good news about the team, here’s a little something. If you play around with ESPN’s Playoff Machine, you can chart a path for the Chiefs into the postseason. And The Athletic’s NFL simulation spun things ahead to the end ...

With help from their Football Power Index tool, ESPN simulated the remainder of the 2025 season for the Indianapolis Colts. So how did things turn out? What the FPI model does is run thousands of simulations. For this exercise, Seth Walder selected just one of those simulations.

ESPN analyst Seth Walder set out to project how the final three weeks of the 2025 NFL season—and the postseason—might unfold, turning to ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI) for answers.