NFL Playoffs 2016: Who Will The Winner Of Chiefs vs. Texans, Steelers vs. Bengals Play Next?

Wild Card Weekend begins on Saturday with two AFC matchups before Sunday features two NFC games. The No. 5 seeded Kansas City Chiefs (11-5) will kick things off by visiting the No. 4 Houston Texans (9-7) in the early game. The night game will feature the No. 6 seeded Pittsburgh Steelers (10-6) paying a visit to the division rival Cincinnati Bengals (12-4).

The winners will have to play No. 1 Denver and No. 2 New England, who have byes, in the divisional round of the playoffs next week. As it turns out, the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game has a bearing on what the matchups end up being next week.

If the Steelers beat the Bengals, they will play the Broncos in Denver while the Chiefs-Texans winner travels to New England to play the Patriots. If the Bengals beat the Steelers, they pay a visit to New England while the Chiefs-Texans winner would travel to Denver next week.

Kansas City brings a 10-game winning streak in to the playoffs and is looking to win the franchise’s first postseason game in 22 years. Houston overcame a 2-5 start of their own to emerge as champions of the AFC South for the first time since 2012, when they won a wild-card game.

Cincinnati won the AFC North and hosts Pittsburgh with backup quarterback AJ McCarron as Andy Dalton recovers from a fractured thumb. The Steelers snuck in the playoffs with a Week-17 win and will try to win their first postseason game since 2010.