The 2025 NFL schedule drops on Wednesday evening, with the league announcing its full 272-game slate for the upcoming season. And the calendar is chock-full of anticipated matchups, including the Dallas Cowboys playing host to the Kansas City Chiefs in a Thanksgiving special on CBS and Paramount+.

NFL schedule is officially released on May 14, but leaks and rumors continued to come out for the Packers and other teams.

Long created a fake schedule that included matchups against teams not on the Eagles’ slate and games that would have forced Johnson to face some of the league’s top edge rushers in consecutive weeks. When Johnson reviewed the October portion of Long’s faux schedule, an Oct. 5 game caught him off guard.

In the early 1960s, when the NFL comprised 14 teams, crafting the league schedule wasn’t quite an art and certainly wasn’t yet a science. Dan Rooney, then an executive for the family-owned Pittsburgh Steelers, would lay out 14 dominoes, moving them around as he scribbled out a weekly lineup of potential matchups.

Now that we know the order, dates and prime-time schedule, let’s dive into our way-too-early game-by-game predictions for the Detroit Lions.

The Bears 2025 schedule is officially out. Here are all of the games that will take place in prime time or in a standalone spot.

The NFL schedule is being released gradually, and some details have already leaked through insiders. Jordan Schultz revealed that the Las Vegas Raiders’ season opener, which will mark running back Ashton Jeanty’s NFL debut,

Ahead of the 2025 NFL season, the Washington Commanders game against the Chicago Bears has been named one of the top 10 non-divisional games in 2025.

The Bears will be involved in one of the season's most anticipated games in 2025 and it happens to be a memorable rematch from last year.

According to a recent schedule leak, the Steelers will open the 2025 NFL season on the road against Justin Fields and the New York Jets in Week 1.