Next up on the offseason calendar: Schedule release
It's coming in May — likely the week of May 11.
Now that the NFL draft has come and gone, there's one key date left on the league's offseason schedule. Even if we don't know what that date will be. The schedule release is coming.
In May. When in May, we don't know. Last year, the full regular-season schedule was released on Wednesday, May 14.
In the preceding days, a handful of games were announced by the various broadcast partners. That makes the week of May 11 the most likely target for the 2026 schedule release, as to the entire slate of 272 regular-season games. Like every year, the "who" and the "where" of every game became known the moment the prior regular season ended.
The formula is tied to division membership (six games), the AFC-NFC full-division rotation (as to eight games), and final finish in each team's given division (three games). But the "when" remains a mystery, for all but two games. To date, the league has announced that the Rams will "host" the 49ers in Melbourne on Thursday, September 10 (Friday, September 11 at the site of the game) and that the Cowboys will "host" the Ravens in Brazil on Sunday, September 27.