Helping matters will be the playoff debut of the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and the return to action of quarterbacks Tom Brady and Drew Brees. Here are our predictions for how the divisional round will sort out, both in terms of who will win and who will win against the spread. Record against the spread in the wild-card round: 2-1-1Indianapolis Colts at Kansas City Chiefs4:35 p.m. Saturday, NBCThe Colts’ defense is not talked about that much. Individual players did not rack up a lot of big round numbers that could be pointed to as measures of success. The one player whose numbers stood out was the rookie linebacker Darius Leonard, who led the N.F.L.

Source: New York Times January 10, 2019 18:19 UTC