The NFL wraps up the 2025-26 regular season this weekend as Week 18 will finalize the 2026 playoff bracket and the first 18 picks of the 2026 NFL Draft. We’ll see an assortment of teams resting players in preparation for the playoffs, as teams without a chance at a bye are looking to get ready for next weekend’s Wild Card round.

However Sunday night, the 272nd and final game of the regular season, will have winner-take-all stakes as the archrival Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens vie for the AFC North title in the latest installment of their border way. The loser goes gets nothing.

Florio’s pick: 49ers 27, Seahawks 24. Simms’s pick: Seahawks 28, 49ers 24. A meaningless game will have plenty of meaning, if Tampa wins on Saturday. Florio’s pick: Saints 23, Falcons 20. Simms’s pick: Falcons 24, Saints 17.

Nolan Bianchi, Richard Silva, John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer their predictions for Week 18 of the NFL season.

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Per ESPN Research: the 2025 Eagles are the first team since the 1987 Patriots to win multiple games in a season in which they didn’t complete a second half pass. Hurts is the first QB in the play by play era (since 1978) to go 0-7 or worse in multiple games in a season.

Sam Farmer makes his picks and predictions for the final week of the NFL regular season, with the 49ers beat the Seahawks and the Steelers prevailing.

Cowboys (-3.5) at Giants: The Raiders understood the assignment in their Week 17 Tank Bowl loss against the Giants. This dumbass Giants team did not. The Giants are going to try to win this game too, but so will Dak Prescott, who has a chance to lead the NFL in passing yards.

Overall picks to win: 8-8 in Week 17 (173-82-1 for the season) Picks to win with 1-5 confidence: 4-7 (103-64-1) Picks to win with 6-10 confidence: 4-1 (70-18) Overall to cover the spread: 9-6-1 (130-117-9) Cover-the-spread picks with 1-5 confidence: 8-4-1 (107-93-8) Cover-the-spread picks with 6-10 confidence: 1-2 (23-23-1)

Preview the Baltimore Ravens' NFL Week 18 matchup with the Steelers, including live stream, TV channel, odds, and game information.