2025 NFL Schedule Release: Ranking the 10 Best Games

The NFL regular season schedule announcement creates plenty of buzz around the league each year and allows fans to gauge their favorite team's chances to either make a run at the Super Bowl, or land the No. 1 pick in next spring’s NFL Draft.

We have taken a look at the 10 games for the 2025 NFL regular season.

10. Cincinnati Bengals @ Denver Broncos (Week 4)

Kicking things off on our list is a rematch of one of the best regular-season games of a year ago, as the Cincinnati Bengals will take on the Denver Broncos.

After a very disappointing season in 2024, Joe Burrow and the Bengals should be in position to contend again in the AFC, while the Broncos will be in hot pursuit of an AFC West division title following their splashy offseason additions of Talanoa Hufanga, Dre Greenlaw, and Evan Engram. 

9. Detroit Lions @ Baltimore Ravens (Week 3)

There isn’t much thought that needs to go into this selection. The Lions and Ravens are expected to be two of the better teams in the NFL this season, and we’ll get an early look at where Detroit is at following the loss of its offensive and defensive coordinators in the offseason.

If Lamar Jackson continues his unparalleled success against the NFC in his career, this one could get ugly.

8. Seattle Seahawks @ Los Angeles Rams (Week 11)

This one is pretty simple; it’s the Cooper Kupp revenge game. The longtime Rams wideout was replaced by Davante Adams in Los Angeles this past offseason, and he’ll certainly have a lot to prove as part of an upstart Seahawks team that is looking to make moves in a crowded NFC West.

7. Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers (Week 14)

Given that this is the most consequential rivalry in the NFC North by some margin, it would be little surprise to see plenty of physicality in this late-season matchup. 

Chicago will be looking to capitalize on its momentum against Green Bay late last season, while the Packers will surely be hoping to re-establish their dominance in this series.

6. Pittsburgh Steelers @ New York Jets (Week 1)

On paper, there isn’t much to like about this game considering the product we could see on the field. However, this Week 1 matchup between the Steelers and Jets is all about the storylines that could surround it.

While we don’t know where Aaron Rodgers will land yet, it seems most likely that he’ll end up playing for the Steelers, making this matchup against his former team on the road a very compelling one. 

Furthermore, Justin Fields has a chance to exact a bit of revenge of his own, now that he’s the likely starting quarterback for New York.

5. Los Angeles Chargers @ Las Vegas Raiders (Week 2)

Another early-season clash that looks exciting is this AFC West contest between the Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders.

The Chargers have the potential to be great, especially now that head coach Jim Harbaugh is overseeing Justin Herbert at the controls, while Las Vegas is an entirely new operation with Pete Carroll on the sideline and Geno Smith entering the fold under center.

One of these teams could certainly beat out the other in the AFC playoff picture, so this game could prove to be quite meaningful down the road.

4. Chicago Bears @ Washington Commanders (Week 6)

This game produced one of the all-time wackiest endings you’ll ever see on a football field a season ago. What will these teams do for an encore? 

Caleb Williams and company will be looking for revenge with new head coach Ben Johnson running the show, while Jayden Daniels and the Commanders should be taking the next step forward following an excellent season in 2024.

3. Baltimore Ravens @ Buffalo Bills (Week 1)

One of our most anticipated games of the upcoming season will take place in Week 1 as we’ll get a AFC Divisional Round rematch between the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills.

These teams played out a spirited game against each other back in January, and it saw Josh Allen and the Bills hang on by a thread to knock off Lamar Jackson and the Ravens en route to an AFC Championship Game appearance, where Buffalo would eventually fall to the Kansas City Chiefs.  

With both sides expected to compete for an AFC title and Super Bowl this season, we are expecting an absolute barnburner between these MVP quarterbacks to kick off the campaign.

2. Kansas City Chiefs @ Buffalo Bills (Week 9)

There’s not much to say here that hasn’t already been said by many others. It’s Chiefs vs. Bills, we know how these games typically go.

Buffalo and Kansas City have faced off nine times since 2020, and most of those meetings have come down to the game’s final minutes. It’s must-watch, appointment television.

1. Philadelphia Eagles @ Kansas City Chiefs (Week 2)

Super Bowl rematches don’t always live up to the hype, but it would be impossible not to have this Eagles vs. Chiefs showdown in Week 2 at the top of our most anticipated games list. 

After suffering a humbling defeat to thwart their chances at a three-peat, the Chiefs have an immediate chance to get revenge on an Eagles side that lost a bit more talent than most were expecting this offseason.

Given that these are still two of the best teams in football, we can expect plenty of fireworks at Arrowhead Stadium in this one.

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