It may seem like the last season just ended, but we have already come upon the 2025 NFL schedule release.

Can the preseason be far behind as we navigate through the release? In fact, we are about as close to the 2025 preseason today as we are to the most recent Super Bowl, won by the Philadelphia Eagles. It always comes back around so quickly.

In today’s exercise, we are going to go through all 32 teams and share with you what, on paper, is their most interesting game of the 2025 season. There is no point digging into all 272 regular-season games, since we do not have all day, and would not do that to you, anyway.

When Was the 2025 Schedule Released?

The release occurred at 8pm Eastern time on Wednesday, May 14.

2025 NFL Schedule Release: NFC

Arizona: Week 4 at Seattle. This is a Thursday night game, a day on which they don’t usually play, but it could have consequences in this division.

Atlanta: Week 15 at Tampa Bay. A rare case in which these teams are each others’ most interesting game.

Carolina: Week 12 at San Francisco. This is their only MNF appearance of the season.

Chicago: Week 13 at Philadelphia. A Black Friday game against the Eagles in which they will have the nation’s undivided attention.

Dallas: Week 13 vs. Kansas City. Oh nothing, just playing Mahomes and Co. on Thanksgiving under the lights.

Detroit: Week 6 at Kansas City. Perhaps the Big Game that should have been in 2024, but was not.

Green Bay: Week 13 at Detroit. The Packers get the Thanksgiving contest with Detroit again, and this should be a very good game.

Los Angeles: Week 15 vs. Detroit. Stafford and Goff, together again.

Minnesota: Week 18 vs. Green Bay. Just imagine if this game means something – definite possibility it gets flexed if so.

New Orleans: Week 12 vs. Atlanta. By the time this game is over, we should have an idea of where these teams stack up in the NFC South.

New York: Week 3 vs. Kansas City. The Giants got a Sunday night home opener against the Chiefs. We will see what they do or do not have very quickly.

Philadelphia: Week 11 vs. Detroit. A possible playoff preview.

San Francisco: Week 10 vs. Los Angeles (N). Gotta beat the Rams at home if you want people to take you seriously.

Seattle: Week 11 at Los Angeles (N). How the Hawks do in this game in LA will have significant consequences for their season.

Tampa Bay: Week 15 vs. Atlanta. Thursday night game for these teams in what could be a meaningful divisional game.

Washington: Week 8 at Kansas City. Interesting to think how close we got to seeing this matchup, of all matchups, in February 2025.

2025 NFL Schedule Release: AFC

Baltimore: Week 14 vs. Pittsburgh. Very possible that AFC North primacy will be at stake.

Buffalo: Week 9 vs. Kansas City. But can they beat them when it counts?

Cincinnati: Week 5 vs. Detroit. This could be a slugfest.

Cleveland: Week 2 at Baltimore. Their schedule is pretty brutal out of the gate, and the Ravens game is important to setting their season’s course.

Denver: Week 5 at Philadelphia. Was last year’s playoff berth a fluke? They can prove their worth right here.

Houston: Week 14 at Kansas City. A playoff rematch. Houston hung in there last time.

Indianapolis: Week 3 at Tennessee. A good performance here against a division rival could mean the world to them and their season.

Jacksonville: Week 2 at Cincinnati. This will be their first, and perhaps only, test to prove if they will be even marginally competitive this season.

Kansas City: Week 2 vs. Philadelphia. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but this Super Bowl rematch in KC will be hot.

Las Vegas: Week 11 vs. Dallas. A Monday Night game at home against the Cowboys. They will not have a better stage to do something big, or not.

Los Angeles: Week 18 vs. Denver. There is a respectable chance that this game could mean something to both teams.

Miami: Week 10 vs. Buffalo. If the Fins amount to anything this year, this game should mean something.

New England: Week 5 at Buffalo. The Pats are rebuilding, but what sort of competitiveness they show, or don’t, in this game could be telling.

New York: Week 3 at Tampa Bay. There are better games on their schedule, but is one-upping on the menu against their former head coach?

Pittsburgh: Week 18 vs. Baltimore. The Ravens’ home game is their most interesting, and Pittsburgh’s home game is theirs. You know, I don’t think these teams like each other.

Tennessee: Week 7 vs New England. Mike Vrabel is gone, but will his new team beat the Titans?