Every year, we have a team that doesn’t punch their playoff ticket until the clock expires in Week 17. Until then, things are up in the air–team A needs team B to lose to team C and team D to beat team E to win for them to get in. Confused yet? Not every team is lucky enough to control their own playoff destiny.
In 2016’s AFC, we have some playoff spots that look all but guaranteed and we have some spots that are still up for grabs. The AFC West looks so good that they may be sending three of the six playoff teams into January football. There always seems to be at least one team that unexpectedly turns it up in the second half of the season and sneaks into the playoffs. So if you’re team is near the bottom of the division, don’t necessarily count them out just yet.
Upvote and downvote teams below to try and predict the AFC playoff teams–the top six teams in the conference that will get to show what they can do in the playoffs.