| Date | Away team | Home team | Score | Note |
| 1 | | Pittsburgh Steelers | Denver Broncos | 35–35 | First regular-season overtime game in NFL history. |
| 2 | | Los Angeles Rams | Minnesota Vikings | 10–10 | With about a minute left in overtime, Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton's pass wass intercepted by Rams linebacker Rick Kay at the Los Angeles 1-yard line. The Rams then conceded the tie with the ball deep in their own territory. |
| 3 | | Minnesota Vikings | Green Bay Packers | 10–10 | Both teams finished the season with an 8–7–1 record. The Vikings won the NFC Central over the Packers by virtue of a 1–0–1 head-to-head record. |
| 4 | | Green Bay Packers | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 14–14 | |
| 5 | | New York Jets | Miami Dolphins | 28–28 | Jets kicker Pat Leahy missed a 48-yard field goal as time expired in overtime. |
| 6 | | Green Bay Packers | Baltimore Colts | 20–20 | The Colts, who eventually finished their season at 0–8–1, overcame a 20–6 fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime. Packers kicker Jan Stenerud missed wide right from 47 yards with 2:00 left to seal the draw. |
| 7 | | New York Giants | St. Louis Cardinals | 20–20 | Only overtime tie to date on Monday Night Football. Cardinals kicker Neil O'Donoghue missed three field-goal attempts in the extra period from 45, 20 and 42 yards, the last two in the final 66 seconds. |
| 8 | | Philadelphia Eagles | Detroit Lions | 23–23 | |
| 9 | | San Francisco 49ers | Atlanta Falcons | 10–10 | |
| 10 | | St. Louis Cardinals | Philadelphia Eagles | 10–10 | Second tie game in 1986 season. First season to have more than one tie game since overtime was started. |
| 11 | | Denver Broncos | Green Bay Packers | 17–17 | Game played at Milwaukee County Stadium. |
| 12 | | Kansas City Chiefs | New York Jets | 17–17 | |
| 13 | | Kansas City Chiefs | Cleveland Browns | 10–10 | Chiefs kicker Nick Lowery, one of the most accurate kickers during the 1989 season, played poorly on the sloppy turf of Cleveland Municipal Stadium. He missed a 45-yard field goal that would have won it for the Chiefs with four seconds left in regulation. In overtime, he had a chance to win the game on a 47-yard attempt with 3 seconds left, but missed that one as well. |
| 14 | | Philadelphia Eagles | Baltimore Ravens | 10–10 | Each team had an unsuccessful field-goal attempt in the overtime; Ravens kicker Matt Stover missed wide right from 53 yards with 2:21 remaining, Eagles kicker Chris Boniol also missed wide right from 40 yards on the last play of the game. |
| 15 | | New York Giants | Washington Redskins | | First overtime tie in the league's Sunday night slot, and the only one so far in an ESPN-aired game. First time a tie game occurred in consecutive weeks since the institution of overtime. Redskins quarterback Gus Frerotte injured himself by headbutting a stadium wall while celebrating his team's lone touchdown. |
| 16 | | Atlanta Falcons | Pittsburgh Steelers | 34–34 | Atlanta mounted a 17-point comeback to force overtime. Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress was stopped a yard short of the end zone on the final play of overtime. |
| 17 | | Philadelphia Eagles | Cincinnati Bengals | 13–13 | Bengals kicker Shayne Graham missed a 47-yard field goal with seven seconds left in overtime.
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb infamously admitted at the post-game press conference that he didn't know games could end tied. |
| Date | Away team | Home team | Score | Note |
| 1 | | St. Louis Rams | San Francisco 49ers | 24–24 | While this was the first tie under the modified overtime rules, it would have been a tie under the old rules as neither team scored in the extra period. The Rams had a game-winning field goal taken away because of a penalty. Both teams missed field goal attempts in the overtime period. |
| 2 | | Minnesota Vikings | Green Bay Packers | 26–26 | The Packers scored 16 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 23 and force overtime. Both teams scored a field goal in the overtime period, resulting in a final score of 26–26. This was the first tied game in which both teams converted field goal attempts in the extra period. |
| 3 | | Carolina Panthers | Cincinnati Bengals | 37–37 | Both teams scored a field goal in the overtime period. Bengals kicker Mike Nugent missed a 36-yard field goal attempt as the overtime period expired. The game was the highest-scoring tie game in NFL history since the institution of overtime. |
| 4 | | Seattle Seahawks | Arizona Cardinals | 6–6 | Lowest scoring tie since introduction of overtime. Cardinals kicker Chandler Catanzaro and Seahawks kicker Steven Hauschka missed consecutive field goals from short distances late in overtime after having each made one earlier in the overtime period, and Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer threw a Hail Mary pass that was knocked out of the endzone at the end of the overtime period, resulting in the 6–6 tie. This was the first tie since 1997 to be carried on a network other than Fox and the first tie to be televised on NBC since 1989. |
| 5 | | Washington Redskins | Cincinnati Bengals | 27–27 | First overtime game played at Wembley Stadium in London, and the first overtime regular season tie game played outside the United States. Second time in the overtime era in which there were ties in two consecutive weeks, and first since 1997. Neither team scored in the overtime period. Redskins kicker Dustin Hopkins missed a 34-yard field goal in overtime which would have won the game. |
| Date | Away team | Home team | Score | Note |
| 1 | | Pittsburgh Steelers | Cleveland Browns | 21–21 | Both Steelers kicker Chris Boswell and Browns kicker Zane Gonzalez missed field goals in the final two minutes of overtime. This was the first Week 1 tie since 1971 and the first tie to be televised on CBS since 1986. This tie ended a 17-game losing streak for the Browns that dated back to the 2016 season. |
| 2 | | Minnesota Vikings | Green Bay Packers | 29–29 | Packers kicker Mason Crosby made what would have been a game-winning field goal as time expired in regulation, but the Vikings called timeout before the play and Crosby missed his second attempt, sending the game to overtime. Vikings kicker Daniel Carlson missed two field goals in overtime, one as time expired, and was waived by the team the next day. This was the fourth time since 1974 that two games in the same season finished in ties.The tie ultimately cost the Vikings a playoff berth - a 9-7 record would have been good enough to tie the Philadelphia Eagles whom the Vikings beat later in the season. |
| 3 | | Detroit Lions | Arizona Cardinals | 27–27 | The Cardinals, who trailed by as many as 18 points during the fourth quarter, won the coin toss, and scored a field goal on their opening drive. The Lions matched this with a field goal on their opening drive. Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford threw an incomplete pass that nearly resulted in an interception for Cardinals cornerback Tramaine Brock with five seconds remaining, ensuring the tie. |
