NFL Playoff Schedule 2016: AFC, NFC Bracket Predictions, TV Info and More

It's not all that unusual for one of the road teams playing on Wild Card Weekend to have an advantage over a home team and come away with a victory to advance to the divisional round. Sometimes even two road teams can find a way to survive and advance.

However, can all four of the road teams actually come away with playoff victories this week? 

All four of the road teams are favored in their wild-card games, and that's a shocking development from a historical perspective.

Home teams have traditionally done very well in the first round of the playoffs. Teams playing in their home stadium in the first round have gone 52-28 throughout the last 20 seasons straight up and 47-31-2 against the spread, according to Odds Shark.

Game	Day, Time (ET)	TV	Line	Predicted Winner
Kansas City at Houston	Saturday, 4:20 p.m.	ABC/ESPN	Kansas City (-3.5)	Kansas City
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati	Saturday, 8:15 p.m.	CBS	Pittsburgh (-2.5)	Pittsburgh
Seattle at Minnesota	Sunday, 1:05 p.m.	NBC	Seattle (-5)	Seattle
Green Bay at Washington	Sunday, 4:40 p.m.	Fox	Green Bay (-1)	Washington

The Kansas City Chiefs (11-5) are the hottest team in the league coming into the postseason, having won 10 games in a row after starting with a shocking 1-5 record.

Andy Reid's players appeared to be depressed and out of it after they dropped an 18-17 decision at home to the Chicago Bears in Week 5. Not only were they losing, All-Pro running back Jamaal Charles was lost for the year with a season-ending knee injury and the pass defense was giving up huge chunks of yardage.

But Reid deserves credit because he wouldn't let his team quit on the season. The Chiefs found a pair of effective running backs in Charcandrick West (634 yards) and Spencer Ware (403 yards), and quarterback Alex Smith set a high standard in managing the game by completing 65.3 percent of his passes and compiling a 20-to-7 touchdown-to-interception ratio.

While the offense started to improve, the defense surged as well. After their poor start in defending the pass, the Chiefs came on in notable fashion. Kansas City ended up with the league's ninth-ranked pass defense, and rookie cornerback Marcus Peters had eight interceptions and 33 passes defensed.

They are going to Houston to take on the Texans (9-7), another team that started poorly and finished in much stronger fashion. The key to the Texans' success is a defense led by J.J. Watt, Brian Cushing, Jadeveon Clowney and Whitney Mercilus.

Despite their brilliant personnel, the Texans started 2-5 and the defense gave up 44 point to the Miami Dolphins. But defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel got this unit to play effectively in the second half of the season, and after they won a Monday night game over the Cincinnati Bengals 10-6 in Week 10, the Texans came on with a rush.

Still, it's hard to go against this Kansas City team and its double-digit win streak.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers (10-6) were on the outside looking in going into their Week 17 finale at Cleveland. However, they responded with a workmanlike 28-12 victory over the Browns, and then marched into the postseason when the New York Jets lost at Buffalo against former head coach Rex Ryan and his Bills.

That could be bad news for the rest of the AFC. While the Steelers are the sixth seed in the AFC playoffs, they have an explosive offense led by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger that could prove to be the most dangerous of all six teams on that side of the postseason ledger.

Prior to the their Week 16 loss at Baltimore, the Steelers had reeled off six straight games scoring 30 points or more. Roethlisberger threw for 3,938 yards despite missing four full games, and he has tremendous rapport with wideouts Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant, Markus Wheaton and tight end Heath Miller.

The running game could be an issue as the Steelers get ready to play on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals (12-4). DeAngelo Williams was brilliant in replacing star running back Le'Veon Bell this season, but Williams suffered a foot injury against Cleveland and is unlikely to be ready by game time.

The Bengals have injury concerns of their own, and they also have a poor playoff history under head coach Marvin Lewis. This is their seventh trip to the postseason in his tenure, per Pro Football Reference, and the Bengals have lost their previous six games.

Additionally, quarterback Andy Dalton has been out with a broken thumb since Week 14, and while the cast has been removed from his injured digit, he is unlikely to play. That means backup AJ McCarron will be under center, and there's little reason to believe he can change the Bengals' losing postseason trend.

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On the NFC side, the Seattle Seahawks (10-6) and Green Bay Packers (10-6) are both road favorites. Of the two, the Seahawks seem like the stronger play as they go into Minnesota to take on a Vikings (11-5) team they defeated 38-7 last month.

Russell Wilson has turned into a big-play quarterback with 34 TD passes this season and a 68.1 completion percentage. Wilson has been especially hot at season's end with 24 scoring passes in the last seven weeks.

While the Vikings clinched the NFC North in Week 17 with a 20-13 victory over the Packers, it seems like they don't have the firepower with Teddy Bridgewater at quarterback to hang with the impressive Seahawks.

The Packers are favored by one point over the Washington Redskins (9-7) , but they are limping into the postseason with six losses in their last 10 games. Aaron Rodgers has not the dominating quarterback that he has been in past years, as the Packers had the 25th-ranked passing game in the NFL and averaged just 219.2 yards through the air.

The Redskins were plugging along in a halting manner through most of the season in the NFC East, but they won their last four games to pull away in the struggling division. Quarterback Kirk Cousins took advantage of the opportunity he was given by head coach Jay Gruden, and he threw for 4,166 yards and 29 touchdowns.

There is less pressure on the Redskins than any other postseason team. They were a near-unanimous selection for last place in the NFC East this season by most of the preseason publications, and they came away with the division title. Any postseason win will be considered gravy.

That pressure-free environment (relatively speaking) should be enough to help the Redskins come up with a home victory. The rest of the wild-card wins should go to the road teams.

Stats and injury info courtesy of CBS Sports unless otherwise noted.