The 2023 regular season comes to a close on Sunday night, and, thankfully, that is not the end of the Detroit Lions’ story. After clinching the NFC North a couple weeks ago, the Lions will be hosting a playoff game in Ford Field for the first time ever next week.
But their opponent has yet to be determined. There’s not much the Lions can do at this point to impact their fate—their chance at moving from the three seed to two is far-fetched—but that doesn’t mean we can’t root for our favorite scenarios. On Saturday, I laid out every possible first-round playoff opponent the Lions could have and the path to get them there.