Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs will be featured in at least eight stand-alone games during the upcoming NFL season.

Because it’s a year with a zero in it, the Dallas Cowboys are going to be all but inescapable during the 2025 NFL season. But while Jerry Jones’ team always manages to earn its keep in their multiple national TV windows,

The schedule is set, the prime-time showdowns are known, meaning NFL football is that much closer to returning.

Netflix will air the games live on Thursday, December 25, Christmas Day. The Cowboys-Commanders will air at 1 p.m. ET from Northwest Stadium in Landover, MD, followed by the Lions-Vikings at 4:30 pm ET from the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

That gave the NFL another opportunity to hone its butchering skills and extract the squeal from the pig that's become America's most popular sport. No date on the league calendar emits more "this could have been an email" energy than the schedule release day. No matter how teams gussy it up, it's still just a calendar.

The NFL is releasing the entire 2025 schedule on Wednesday. Here are all the rumored matchups leaked ahead of the official release.

From Minecraft to Mario Kart, plenty of NFL teams had younger fans in mind while revealing schedules in the growing tradition of videos on the social platform X.

As noted above, teams will blackout dates where their home venue is in use for concerts. That happened with several teams last year when Taylor Swift had the joint booked for the Eras Tour. The league did work around the schedules for Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and Green Day this year, but nothing out of the ordinary.