Has an NFL game ever ended 22-17?
It has. 22-17 has been a NFL final 26 times in 18,234 games. The first was Green Bay Packers beat Washington Redskins on November 30, 1941; the latest was Kansas City Chiefs beat Atlanta Falcons on September 22, 2024.
That makes 22-17 the 197th most common final score out of 1,095 that have ever occurred in NFL. One point away, 23-17 has happened 129 times and 22-18 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 42 years, between 1941 and 1983.