Lions pull proposal to change NFL playoff seeding

The Detroit Lions have withdrawn their rule proposal that would have seeded the playoffs by record and not guarantee division winners a home game.

NFL owners had been set to vote on the proposal at the spring meeting on Wednesday.

In the proposal, only the division winner in each conference with the best record would be guaranteed a home playoff game. The rest of the playoff field would have been seeded strictly by record.

In the current format, the NFL’s four division winners in each conference are guaranteed a home game, regardless of record.