The Live Wall · Next kickoff · 1 to come
Monday 8:15 PM ET — 14 hours, 6 minutes.
Monday 8:15 PM · as of 6:08 AM ET
LeverageThe leverage ladder
15 on the slate
Monday 8:15 PM ET1
Final14
Buccaneers by 8 · The game →Buccaneers by 8 · The game →
Jaguars by 2 · The game →Jaguars by 2 · The game →
Bengals by 7 · The game →Bengals by 7 · The game →
Jets by 5 · The game →Jets by 5 · The game →
Texans by 23 · The game →Texans by 23 · The game →
Steelers by 12 · The game →Steelers by 12 · The game →
Patriots by 28 · The game →Patriots by 28 · The game →
Vikings by 10 · The game →Vikings by 10 · The game →
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Tie · The game →Tie · The game →
Broncos by 6 · The game →Broncos by 6 · The game →
Packers by 24 · The game →Packers by 24 · The game →
Lions by 24 · The game →Lions by 24 · The game →
49ers by 3 · The game →49ers by 3 · The game →
Ravens by 7 · The game →Ravens by 7 · The game →
Slate as of 6:08 AM ET · scoreboard observed 2:01 AM ET · polling · 1800s tick · last packet just now · win probability is ESPN’s own model, a play behind the feed
What is live
Score, clock, possession and down are read off the live feed and are seconds old. The win-probability comb arrives already computed, a play or two behind the play feed. Leverage is this product’s ordering, not a statistic: it combines how close the game is, how little time is left, how far the probability just moved, and whether somebody is inside the twenty. A row ranked by margin is ordered on the scoreboard because no probability has landed for it yet. Possession, down and the red-zone mark are the last snap’s and are drawn only on a game that is being played. The market line is the median of the books quoting the game in play, devigged in probability space and credited to TheRundown; a silent book prints no live price. The last scoring play prints without fantasy points until the live points table lands.
How this page is ordered
Every game on today’s slate, ordered by which one is still in doubt. The game where the next play decides it is the plate at the top; the live rows under it are ranked by how much the possession on the field can still move the result; the games to come are grouped by kickoff; the games that are over fold under one door. Open any of them and every play appears the moment the feed publishes it.
The wall, on any day
The wall’s whole subject is sixteen games at once, and that state exists for about six hours a week. These render it from the same recorded PIT at BUF rows through the shipping code path — the same leverage arithmetic, the same comparator, the same marks. The pre-kick and one-game fixtures carry the real 2026 Week 1 slate and its real kickoffs; on the Sunday fixtures the teams and event ids are the real 2026-08-28 slate and the plays under fifteen of the sixteen rows belong to a different pair, which is stated on the fixture itself.
- prekickThe real 2026 Week 1 slate before a snap. Sixteen scheduled games in six kickoff windows; the ribbon is the hero.
- oneOne game being played — the Wednesday opener replayed from the recorded rows — and fifteen still to come. The thin wall.
- sundaySixteen games at once, every one at a different point of a real recorded game. The state the wall exists for.
- staleThe Sunday slate read nine minutes ago — every dot paused, the age in the slot, the verdict ink quiet. The feed went silent; the page says so.
- disruptedThe Sunday the league got hit — a postponement, a cancellation, a lightning delay, a suspended game, a tie and an overtime finish, all on one wall.
- quietEvery game finished. The wall with nothing left in doubt, which is a different picture from an empty one.
- emptyThe feed answering and carrying nothing. A Tuesday.
- outageThe feed not answering at all. Not the same fact as an empty slate, and not drawn like one.
- offlineThe Sunday slate with the device offline — every dot hollow, every row at full ink, the consequence named.
- skeletonThe ladder's skeleton twin at final geometry — chrome real, the payload breathing, nothing spinning.
Every state, on any day
A live room is only honest if its unhappy states have been looked at. These replay real rows recorded from PIT at BUF on 2026-08-27 through the same reader, so each state can be read, photographed and argued with on a Tuesday.
- kickoffBefore the ball is in the air. No plays, no score, an open channel.
- liveFourth quarter, plays arriving one at a time on the push channel.
- halftimeThe clock at 0:00 in the second quarter, the channel still open.
- overtimeA fifth period — real fourth-quarter plays relabelled to probe the period vocabulary.
- finalThe game is over and the server has closed the channel on purpose.
- quietThe channel is open and the FEED has stopped answering. The worst case.
- correctionA play is rewritten and another is withdrawn after both were painted.
- pollingThe socket never opens. The reader falls to the HTTP poll floor.
- reconnectThe socket drops mid-drive and a retry is armed.
- closedThis game is not on today's slate.