NFL Wildcard Weekend Picks, Predictions & Betting Lines
Get our best NFL Wildcard Weekend predictions for the 2025/26 season. Upon the conclusion of the regular season on January 4, our experts will preview the 6 wild card games to find you the best wildcard weekend picks against the spread and straight-up. Providing you with years of NFL handicapping experience and a season of detailed analysis.
The home of our free NFL Wildcard Weekend Picks and Predictions for the first round of the 2025/26 NFL playoffs. As we have done throughout the regular season, we will have expert NFL Picks, NFL Predictions & NFL Best Bets for the wild card weekend.
Our expert NFL handicappers have been researching every game of the NFL season to this point and will be here to provide free expert analysis, previews, and picks throughout the NFL Wildcard Weekend and the entirety of the NFL playoffs, including our Super Bowl Picks.
The 2025/26 NFL Wildcard weekend is a blockbuster week to start the NFL playoffs. Wildcard Weekend will see 6 matches played across the three days, with only one team from each conference getting a Bye Week.
With six games to go through and the best playing the best, the margins will be even finer this weekend and this is where the experience of our experts at Pickswise come to fruition. With years of experience, and hours of research put into each game, we provide detailed analysis for all our free Wildcard Weekend Picks.
NFL Wildcard Weekend Schedule
We won’t know the schedule for the Wild Card weekend until the conclusion of the regular season, however the dates for Wild Card Round games are already set:
| Saturday, Jan. 10 | Start Time |
| Wild Card Game 1 | 4:30pm ET |
| Wild Card Game 2 | 8:00pm ET |
| Sunday, Jan. 11 | |
| Wild Card Game 3 | 1:00pm ET |
| Wild Card Game 4 | 4:30pm ET |
| Wild Card Game 5 | 8:15pm ET |
| Monday, Jan. 12 | |
| Wild Card Game 6 | 8:15pm ET |
NFL Wildcard Weekend Odds
Our experts look through the entire NFL Wildcard Weekend schedule and odds, to find the best NFL Wildcard Weekend picks.
There are many different betting markets to choose from when wagering on a match, and while our main focus here is on the three most popular markets among NFL bettors – Money line, Against the Spreads, and Points Totals, be sure to check out our NFL Parlays and NFL Prop Bets for our best alternative NFL Wildcard Weekend predictions.
As the regular season enters it’s final weeks, prepare for Wildcard Weekend by checking the latest odds for each team to make the playoffs. Once we know who’s in and each matchup is confirmed we’ll have all the odds for each wild card game.
NFL Playoff Picks
Upon the conclusion of NFL Wildcard weekend our experts immediately begin research and analysis for the following round, which comes a week later. Our NFL Divisional Round picks & predictions will be released as we approach the first game on January 17. From there we’ll do the same for our NFL Conference Championship picks & predictions ahead of the AFC and NFC Championship games on January 25. This of course will lead us to the Super Bowl on February 8, and you can expect an array of expert picks and predictions for the big game, including all those unique Super Bowl props.