The Buffalo Bills-Cincinnati Bengals game that was halted Monday when Bills safety Damar Hamlin experienced a cardiac arrest on the field will not be resumed or replayed, the NFL announced Thursday night.
As a result, the Bills and Bengals will have their postseason positions determined based on their winning percentage for a 16-game season rather than the 17-game schedule played by all other NFL teams.
Due to the resulting disparity, the league recommended changes to playoff ramifications that team owners will consider in a special league meeting Friday. Chiefly, the AFC Championship game would be played at a neutral site if the home team for that contest ordinarily would have been settled in part by the result of the canceled game.