Week 22 · 1 game · February 8, 2026 · Updated Jul 9, 12:01 AM ET
One game, one clean result: Seattle went into New England as a 4.5-point road favorite and covered comfortably, winning 29–13. The drama index was modest — this one never felt like it was in serious doubt after the first half. The 42 combined points finished under the closing total, which fits a game where the winning team controlled the clock and the losing offense couldn't generate consistent chunk plays. At 13 points, New England's output was the story — or rather, the absence of one. The standings grid below will show what this result means for both teams heading into the offseason.
Final scores, box-score leaders, and the schedule are facts from nflverse. Win probability and the drama index (the sum of the win-probability swings across a game) are nflfastR-modeled — derived estimates, not raw facts; the win-probability line is the home team's, already team-relative. Standings are regular-season records to date, with win percentage counting a tie as half a win. Each game's recap is written from that deterministic data — the model turns the numbers into prose, it never computes them.