With the win, the Steelers clinched the AFC North, and they'll now host the Texans in the wild-card round. The AFC North was one of four divisions got clinched during a wild Week 18, and that included a wild NFC South race that ended in the most unlikely way possible.

Welcome back to my weekly AFC West check-in – a quick, data-driven power ranking that tracks how the divisional shifts from Sunday to Sunday. Rankings aren’t box-score trophies – they’re context-adjusted judgments on where these teams are at and who’s sitting pole week to week.