Eric Murray returned one of Justin Herbert’s career-high four interceptions for a touchdown, C.J. Stroud threw a TD pass and the Houston Texans rolled past the Los Angeles Chargers ... try to advance to the AFC championship game for the first time ...

The Los Angeles Chargers and quarterback Justin Herbert beat the Las Vegas Raiders 34-20 on Sunday, clinching the No. 5 seed in the AFC Playoffs. The Chargers h

The NFL playoff bracket is down to eight teams entering divisional round. Who could play in AFC championship game? Who could play in NFC title game?

In the AFC, there will be four familiar faces as the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans all made it to the divisional round for the second straight year. This marks just the second time since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 that a conference has sent the same four teams to the divisional round in consecutive seasons.

One of the teams will play in this season’s AFC Championship Game. Which will be decided when the fourth-seeded Texans and top-seeded Chiefs square off in a Divisional Round game at 3:30 p.m. CST Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. ABC and ESPN will televise the game.

The Los Angeles Chargers are heading to Houston to take on the Texans in the opening NFL wild-card game. A city that head coach Jim Harbaugh knows all too well.

Wild-card weekend in the NFL playoffs has begun, and it ends with Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 in New Orleans. Here's the full schedule and bracket.

Justin Herbert passed for 346 yards and two touchdowns, and the Los Angeles Chargers secured the fifth seed in the AFC playoffs with a 34-20 victory Sunday over the Las Vegas Raiders.

Running back Joe Mixon s dealing with an ankle injury entering Saturday’s divisional-round matchup against the Chiefs.

Houston is 0-5 in its five previous divisional round appearances and has yet to make the AFC championship game since the franchise's inaugural season in 2002. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are eyeing a seventh consecutive AFC championship game appearance as they begin their quest for an unprecedented Super Bowl three-peat.

The weekend opens with Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs hosting the Texans and closes with two MVP candidates squaring off in prime time.