The Detroit Lions‘ full 2026 schedule is out.
Now, fans can react to the schedule and begin to make record predictions. There’s some key takeaways with the slate, together with a troublesome stretch the place the Lions will play three video games in simply 12 days in November.
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But, many really feel just like the Lions bought a superb draw with the schedule.
NFL.com’s Nick Shook ranked the Lions’ schedule among the top five most favorable 2026 slates. Per NFL.com, the Lions have the second-easiest 2026 schedule.
The Lions are aiming to bounce again from their disappointing end to the 2025 season and may have a really promising on-ramp towards that purpose. Their first 5 video games in 2026 embrace just one group that gained a playoff sport final season (Buffalo), a prime-time contest that additionally serves because the official regular-season opening of latest Highmark Stadium. If there is a time to face the Bills and new coach Joe Brady — even when it needs to be on the street — it is in Week 2, when Buffalo will nonetheless be settling in beneath a brand new teaching employees.
The first two divisional video games will each happen at Ford Field in Weeks 7 and eight. The street slate is not precisely daunting. Business journeys outdoors of the NFC North embrace visits to Miami, Atlanta, Carolina and Arizona, and Detroit faces reigning AFC champion (*5*) in Munich. Outside of a brutal ultimate month (together with street video games towards Minnesota, Chicago and Green Bay), the slate seems promising for the Lions. – Nick Shook, NFL.com
Looking on the entrance of the schedule, a quick begin seems like a should for the Lions if Detroit eyes a return to the highest of the NFC North and towards Super Bowl rivalry. While 2025 was disappointing, the Lions are seeing the potential rewards of a fourth-place schedule.
NFL.com additionally included the Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons among its top-five most favorable schedule.
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