According to The Athletic, the Rams will have a 37% chance to win the West if the Colts win, or a 19% chance if the 49ers win. That’s because the 49ers own the tiebreaker over the Rams based on their winning percentage in the division, so the Rams would have to finish one game ahead of San Francisco in order to be a higher seed.

The Colts are the first team in NFL history to start a season 7-1 and finish with a losing record. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly from the Colts' seventh consecutive loss.

The Los Angeles Rams let what would've been a huge win slip through their grasp on Thursday night, allowing the Seattle Seahawks to erase a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit and win in overtime, 38-37. Had the Rams won, their chances of earning the No. 1 seed would've improved to 90%, per The Athletic, but they've since sunk to 20%.

Highlights from the Week 16 matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts during the 2025 NFL season.

The Los Angeles Rams' chance of being the one seed in the NFC has gone away after the majority of games have taken place in Week 17. They have a get-right game

A once-promising Colts season that included a 7-1 start, has ended without a postseason berth, sparked by a historic late-season collapse.