SportsLine's model simulated Saturday's Washington vs. Detroit Divisional Round matchup 10,000 times and revealed its NFL best bets for the 2025 NFL playoffs

The Detroit Lions will open their NFL playoffs 2025 run against the Washington Commanders, who upset the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night.

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The Washington Commanders will take on the Detroit Lions in Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs on Saturday. This prediction is based on 10,000 simulations of the game.

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The Detroit Lions are ready to run it back. After a near-flawless 15-2 campaign, the NFC’s No. 1-ranked team will begin their second consecutive march toward postseason glory when they take on the Washington Commanders in the Divisional Round of the playoffs at Detroit’s Ford Field on Saturday, Jan. 18.

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The Detroit Lions have reached a pivotal moment in their journey, one they’ve been steadily building toward for years. Long overshadowed, underestimated, and dismissed as perennial underachievers, the Lions now charge into the 2025 NFL Divisional Round with a confidence born of their dominant 15-2 regular season.

In Sporting News' NFL picks against the spread for the divisional round of the 2025 playoffs, the Lions and Eagles survive and advance in the NFC.