Seattle is currently 7-7 with three games remaining and second place in the NFC West standings (behind the San Francisco 49ers, who they just lost to for the second time this season). Their remaining games are at Kansas City (currently 10-3 and leading the AFC West), at home against the New York Jets (currently 7-6 and tied for third/last place in the AFC East), and at home against the Los Angeles Rams (currently 4-9 and last place in the NFC West). Seattle beat LA 27-23 on December 4, so the final matchup will be the second time the teams meet this season.

At this writing, Seattle has no chance at a top 4 seed, since they will not win the NFC West. There are 7 NFC Playoff spots (three wild cards), and Seattle is 8th in the conference standings after their recent loss to the 49ers, behind the 7-5-1 New York Giants and just ahead of 6-7 Detroit (Seattle holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over both). Note that New York and Detroit have four games remaining, since they will be playing this Sunday but Seattle played this week's game on Thursday.

Seattle will make the playoffs if they win their remaining games and get some outside help to push them into 7th place, or possibly through some other scenarios if they drop a game or two (either way, they need other results to go their way).

Will they make the playoffs?

Trading halts on this market on January 4th and the market will be resolved by January 8th, though possibly earlier on the small chance Seattle knows its playoff future before the final week of games.