Santa Claus decided NFL fans have been good this year, so he's giving football lovers a stacked schedule for Christmas with games on five days in the penultimate week of the regular season. The Week 17 slate kicks off on Christmas Day with the Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans playing the Baltimore Ravens in the Netflix-exclusive games.

As promised, former New Orleans Saints backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is ending retirement for an NFL comeback. But the Saints fan-favorite isn't coming back to New Orleans. Instead, he's signing with a Super Bowl contender: the 13-2 Detroit Lions.

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Cam Ward or Shedeur Sanders in New York? Does Ashton Jeanty squeeze into the first round? Check out Nate Tice and Charles McDonald's third 2025 mock draft, just in time for the holidays.

On Wednesday, Netflix streamed a pair of NFL games, for the first time ever. It was part of the league’s ongoing effort to steal Christmas from the NBA. It was successful, relative to the lack of complaints regarding buffering, outages, and blurred images.

Blue Ivy Carter was one of the surprise guests at her mom Beyoncé’s halftime show during Netflix’s first-ever NFL Christmas Gameday on Wednesday. The 12-year-old joined the dances on stage, channeling cowboy core in a custom Frolov outfit.

The Los Angeles Lakers star had a message for the NFL as it pushes to schedule games on a holiday that's seen NBA contests for decades.

The playoff picture came into sharper focus Wednesday when the Chiefs clinched the AFC’s No. 1 seed and the Ravens leapfrogged the Steelers for the AFC North lead.

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There was one good thing to come out of the subpar Wednesday football we got on Christmas. Lamar Jackson cemented his status as the best rushing QB ever. The Ravens quarterback broke Michael Vick’s all-time rushing record for quarterbacks (6,109) after his 87-yard rushing performance against the Texans.

In a pure box score sense, the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens are winners on Christmas Day, while the Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans are losers. But after the lea