Fans have noticed that more midweek games are a feature of next season's NFL schedule. Find out the league's motivation behind the move.

Plus, plenty of revenge games

The NFL is defending its 2026 regular season schedule. The league has faced criticism as it gives more and more games to streaming platforms, like Netflix, Peacock, Amazon Prime, etc. Most of the NFL's games still come on networks like NBC,

By JOSH DUBOW The NFL’s decision to put the Kansas City Chiefs in primetime windows the first two weeks of the season wasn’t meant to be a hint on how fast Patrick Mahomes will recover from knee surgery.

Game times and dates are set for two of the Lions ' three exhibition games, according to their opponents. The Lions open the preseason at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 against the Cincinnati Bengals and close exhibition play at 3 p.m. Aug. 29 against the Indianapolis Colts. Both games are on the road.

The NFL will spread its games out across more days of the week than ever before this upcoming season. With the league’s schedule fully released, it’s now official that the league has added a handful of new standalone windows outside of what fans are traditionally accustomed to.

Coming off a record-shattering 2025 season, CBS Sports will broadcast more than 100 regular-season games -- as well as a wild card playoff game, a divisional playoff game and the AFC Championship, as part of the 2026 season.