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The 2025 NFL schedule has been revealed, setting the calendar from fall into winter for all 32 franchises. So, how does every team's 17-game lineup fit into the 18-week slate? What are the biggest takeaways from each draw? NFL.com analysts provide the initial intel you need to know.
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Texans' 2025 schedule
Week 1: at Rams
Week 2: Buccaneers (MNF)
Week 3: at Jaguars
Week 4: Titans
Week 5: at Ravens
Week 6: BYE
Week 7: at Seahawks (MNF)
Week 8: 49ers
Week 9: Broncos
Week 10: Jaguars
Week 11: at Titans
Week 12: Bills (TNF)
Week 13: at Colts
Week 14: at Chiefs (SNF)
Week 15: Cardinals
Week 16: Raiders
Week 17: at Chargers (TBD)
Week 18: Colts (TBD)
Three biggest takeaways
- Divisional darlings. The AFC South hasn’t exactly lit the NFL world on fire in recent years, but the league’s schedule-makers clearly remain intrigued by the back-to-back division champs. While the South’s other three teams received just two prime-time assignments combined (one each for Indianapolis and Jacksonville, none for Tennessee), Houston is set to take the national stage on four separate nights. The Texans’ spotlight is balanced over the course of the season, too, with one island-game appearance in each month from September through December.
- An instant OL stress test. After a poor 2024 campaign from the offensive line, Houston decided to boldly overhaul the starting unit, with March’s trade of Pro Bowl LT Laremy Tunsil remaining one of this offseason’s most surprising developments. How will the group perform this fall? Well, Week 1 provides an immediate trial by fire, with Houston traveling to Los Angeles to face the Rams’ ferocious, young defensive line. Can the Texans’ new-look O-line protect C.J. Stroud from Jared Verse, Kobie Turner, Byron Young and Braden Fiske?
- Early bye = Late fatigue? After receiving the latest possible bye in 2024 (Week 14), Houston gets the second-earliest break in 2025 (Week 6). The optimist says this will allow the Texans to get into a groove during the back half of the season. The pessimist says they’ll be worn down by January. The Clash fan instinctively cites Joe Strummer: “The future is unwritten.”
NFL Research note
In the final four weeks of this season, Houston has three home games against teams that missed the playoffs in the 2024 campaign.
Texans' offseason: Additions | Draft picks | Undrafted rookies | Departures
Colts' 2025 schedule
Week 1: Dolphins
Week 2: Broncos
Week 3: at Titans
Week 4: at Rams
Week 5: Raiders
Week 6: Cardinals
Week 7: at Chargers
Week 8: Titans
Week 9: at Steelers
Week 10: Falcons (Berlin)
Week 11: BYE
Week 12: at Chiefs
Week 13: Texans
Week 14: at Jaguars
Week 15: at Seahawks
Week 16: 49ers (MNF)
Week 17: Jaguars
Week 18: at Texans (TBD)
Three biggest takeaways
- Woe is Week 1. Indianapolis hasn’t won its season opener since 2013, easily the longest active streak in the league. Can the Colts snap this ignominious run against the Dolphins? Miami has won its last four openers, though the Fins lost a 16-10 rock fight at Lucas Oil Stadium last October, when Tua Tagovailoa was on injured reserve. Tua’s poised to start this season under center for Miami, but who’ll be his quarterbacking counterpart in Indy? That’s the big question for these Colts, with incumbent starter Anthony Richardson officially in a quarterback competition against Daniel Jones.
- Battle of ex-Eagles coordinators. At this time two years ago, Shane Steichen and Jonathan Gannon were newly minted head coaches, fresh off coordinating an Eagles run to the Super Bowl. Now, the Eagles are reigning Super Bowl champions, while their former offensive (Steichen) and defensive (Gannon) play-callers are still trying to break through in the big chair, having each fielded an 8-9 team in 2024. Steichen’s Colts met Gannon’s Cardinals in last year’s preseason, but now it’s time for a showdown with real stakes. Arizona’s mid-October visit to Indianapolis could serve as an early indicator on where these two programs -- and their respective head coaches -- stand in Year 3.
- Will the divisional dry spell ever end? The Colts have the longest division title drought in the AFC South at 10 years, but they could control their own destiny deep into this season's race, with four of their final six games against the Texans (who’ve claimed the last two South titles) and Jaguars (who wore the crown before Houston). In 2024, Indy swept Tennessee, split a pair of three-point outcomes with Jacksonville and lost two games to Houston by a combined five points.
NFL Research note
The Colts will become the first NFL team to play multiple games in Germany.
Colts' offseason: Additions | Draft picks | Undrafted rookies | Departures
Jaguars' 2025 schedule
Week 1: Panthers
Week 2: at Bengals
Week 3: Texans
Week 4: at 49ers
Week 5: Chiefs (MNF)
Week 6: Seahawks
Week 7: Rams (London)
Week 8: BYE
Week 9: at Raiders
Week 10: at Texans
Week 11: Chargers
Week 12: at Cardinals
Week 13: at Titans
Week 14: Colts
Week 15: Jets
Week 16: at Broncos
Week 17: at Colts
Week 18: Titans (TBD)
Three biggest takeaways
- Opening statement? Jacksonville hired new head coach Liam Coen to maximize Trevor Lawrence and inherently put more points on the board. With that in mind, the Jaguars couldn’t have drawn a more favorable Week 1 assignment than a home game against the Panthers, who just gave up the most points in NFL history while allowing a league-worst 105.4 passer rating against. You only get one chance to make a first impression; Coen and Co. have a golden opportunity to sprint out of the gates.
- Closing flourish? In the final seven weeks of the regular season, Jacksonville only has one game against a team that posted a winning record in 2024: Week 16 at Denver. And with four of their six divisional games coming after Thanksgiving, the Jaguars could really make their mark in the campaign’s closing stretch.
- Heisman homecoming. Travis Hunter brings immense excitement to Jacksonville, with everyone wondering if the dynamic playmaker can continue the two-way excellence he showcased over the past two seasons at Colorado. And the reigning Heisman Trophy winner will be back in the Centennial State late in his rookie season, with the Jaguars visiting the Broncos just a few days before Christmas. You have to imagine he’ll receive a warm welcome back in Buff country.
NFL Research note
Jacksonville isn't scheduled to play Thursday Night Football for the second straight season -- a first since 2006-07, TNF's initial two years of existence.
Jaguars' offseason: Additions | Draft picks | Undrafted rookies | Departures
Titans' 2025 schedule
Week 1: at Broncos
Week 2: Rams
Week 3: Colts
Week 4: at Texans
Week 5: at Cardinals
Week 6: at Raiders
Week 7: Patriots
Week 8: at Colts
Week 9: Chargers
Week 10: BYE
Week 11: Texans
Week 12: Seahawks
Week 13: Jaguars
Week 14: at Browns
Week 15: at 49ers
Week 16: Chiefs
Week 17: Saints
Week 18: at Jaguars (TBD)
Three biggest takeaways
- Welcome to the NFL, rook ... The Titans aren’t in any hurry to name Cam Ward as their starting quarterback, but it feels like a foregone conclusion, especially considering the No. 1 overall pick enters the NFL with 57 college starts under his belt. So, presuming Ward does get the reins for Week 1, he’ll begin his professional career in the deep end, with Tennessee opening the season in Denver. Vance Joseph’s defense emerged as one of the best units in football last season, comfortably leading the league with 63 sacks. Keep those eyes up, Cam! Oh, and when you can get the ball out, beware of reigning Defensive Player of the Year Pat Surtain II.
- Road trip(le). While Tennessee’s strength of schedule is the easiest in the division and fourth-easiest in the entire league, the Titans are one of just three teams facing a three-game road trip. Baltimore and New England share that plight, but Tennessee will encounter it first, with contests at Houston, Arizona and Las Vegas on consecutive Sundays in Weeks 4-6. In Brian Callahan’s first year on the job, the Titans went 2-7 on the road, which was actually an improvement from the 1-7 mark in Mike Vrabel’s final campaign with the team. Speaking of Vrabel, his return to Nashville immediately follows the Titans’ three-week pilgrimage, with Tennessee hosting New England in Week 7.
- Hidden in plain sight. Tennessee and New Orleans are the only two teams without an international game or a prime-time spotlight. (Cleveland was shut out of the evening slate, but the Browns do have a London tilt.) On the plus side of the scheduling equation, it’s a Nashville November! No, I’m not talking about the CMA Awards, though “Country Music’s Biggest Night” did just set its November date at Bridgestone Arena. Across the Cumberland River at Nissan Stadium, the Titans will offer live shows all month long. With four home games sandwiched around a Week 10 bye, this band won’t play in front of a hostile crowd in November.
NFL Research note
Week 2 presents a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIV, when the Titans fell one yard short of the Rams in a 23-16 defeat.
Titans' offseason: Additions | Draft picks | Undrafted rookies | Departures