Following the tip of the NFL common season on Sunday evening, we will now calculate every crew’s opponents for 2025.
Below the NFL scheduling components, every franchise performs each crew in its personal division twice. It additionally performs each crew 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 crew from the remaining two divisions of its personal convention with the identical division end within the earlier season — and the crew 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 be taught precisely when all these video games shall 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 are going to play 10 playoff squads: the Broncos, Chargers, Texans, Ravens, Eagles, Commanders and Lions at residence, 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 problem
Rnk Group Pct ConfRnk
1 Lions 0.5675 1
1 Giants 0.5675 2
1 Bears 0.5675 2
4 Eagles 0.5606 4
5 Vikings 0.5536 5
5 Packers 0.5536 6
7 Cowboys 0.5502 7
8 Commanders 0.5433 8
9 Ravens 0.5329 1
10 Steelers 0.5260 2
11 Browns 0.5190 3
11 Chiefs 0.5190 3
11 Chargers 0.5190 3
14 Bengals 0.5087 6
15 Broncos 0.5017 7
16 Raiders 0.4983 8
17 Rams 0.4879 9
18 Texans 0.4810 9
19 Buccaneers 0.4775 10
19 Falcons 0.4775 11
21 Seahawks 0.4740 12
21 Dolphins 0.4740 10
23 Jaguars 0.4671 11
24 Payments 0.4637 12
24 Colts 0.4637 12
26 Jets 0.4602 14
27 Panthers 0.4567 13
27 Cardinals 0.4567 14
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 information, the Chiefs’ 2025 opponents have a median document of 0.5190. That ties with the Cleveland Browns and Chargers because the Eleventh-hardest regular-season schedule. Primarily based on 2024 regular-season information, the San Francisco 49ers (0.4152) have the simplest schedule, whereas the Lions, Giants and Bears (0.5675) have the toughest.
Nonetheless, the Chiefs, Browns and Chargers could have the AFC’s third-hardest schedule.
In fact, preseason expectations of schedule problem are typically (largely) inaccurate. However till a few of subsequent season’s video games are performed, it’s just about all we have now to go on. One factor is certain: Kansas Metropolis head coach Andy Reid and his workers will “sit up for the problem” of taking part in each one of many crew’s 2025 opponents.
