Following the top of the NFL common season on Sunday evening, we will now calculate every group’s opponents for 2025.
Below the NFL scheduling formulation, every franchise performs each group in its personal division twice. It additionally performs each group in a single different AFC division and one different NFC division. These different AFC and NFC divisions rotate yearly. This accounts for 14 video games of the 17-game schedule.
Then, every franchise performs the group from the remaining two divisions of its personal convention with the identical division end within the earlier season — and the group in a rotating division of the opposite convention with the identical division end.
So in 2025, the Chiefs will play the groups from the AFC West (twice), the AFC South and the NFC East — after which 2024’s first-place finishers from the AFC North, AFC East and NFC North.
Someday in Might, we’ll study precisely when all these video games can be performed. However right here’s what we all know thus far:
House: Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers, Las Vegas Raiders, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Commanders and Detroit Lions
Away: Broncos, Chargers, Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans, Buffalo Payments, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants
In 2024, seven of the Chiefs’ 17 video games had been towards 2023 playoff opponents. However in 2025, they’ll play 10 playoff squads: the Broncos, Chargers, Texans, Ravens, Eagles, Commanders and Lions at house, plus the Broncos, Chargers and Payments on the highway. The Chiefs will face the second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh AFC seeds from 2024 — the fifth and seventh seeds twice — together with the NFC’s first, second and sixth seeds.
2025 Opponent schedule issue
Rnk Workforce Opp Avg CRnk
1 Giants 0.5744 1
2 Bears 0.5709 2
2 Lions 0.5709 2
4 Eagles 0.5606 4
5 Cowboys 0.5571 5
5 Packers 0.5571 5
5 Vikings 0.5571 5
8 Commanders 0.5502 8
9 Ravens 0.5329 1
10 Steelers 0.5260 2
11 Chiefs 0.5225 3
11 Chargers 0.5225 3
13 Browns 0.5190 5
14 Bengals 0.5087 6
15 Broncos 0.5052 7
16 Raiders 0.5017 8
17 Rams 0.4913 9
18 Buccaneers 0.4810 10
18 Texans 0.4810 9
20 Falcons 0.4775 11
21 Seahawks 0.4740 12
21 Dolphins 0.4740 10
23 Payments 0.4671 11
23 Jaguars 0.4671 11
25 Colts 0.4637 13
26 Jets 0.4602 14
27 Panthers 0.4567 13
27 Cardinals 0.4567 13
29 Titans 0.4498 15
30 Patriots 0.4291 16
31 Saints 0.4187 15
32 49ers 0.4152 16
Primarily based on 2024 season data, the Chiefs’ 2025 opponents have a mean document of 0.5225. That ties with the Chargers because the Eleventh-hardest regular-season schedule. Primarily based on 2024 regular-season data, the San Francisco 49ers (0.4152) have the best schedule, whereas the (0.5744) have the toughest.
Nonetheless, the Chiefs and Chargers could have the AFC’s third-hardest schedule.
In fact, preseason expectations of schedule issue are usually (principally) inaccurate. However till a few of subsequent season’s video games are performed, it’s just about all now we have to go on. One factor is bound: Kansas Metropolis head coach Andy Reid and his workers will “look ahead to the problem” of taking part in each one of many group’s 2025 opponents.
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