Schedule Leak: Cowboys rumored to host hated rival on Thanksgiving Day

Cowboys - Eagles rarely needs extra juice. This year, however, it may come with a side of gravy. Just hours after the NFL announced that the Cowboys will open their 2026 season with a visit to MetLife Stadium to face the Giants in a primetime showdown, there's buzz about another high-profile matchup pitting the Cowboys against a division rival.

According to Ryan Fowler of NBC Sports Philadelphia, who cites a source in his Monday afternoon post to X, the Eagles will be the team traveling to Dallas this season for the traditional late-afternoon slot on Thanksgiving Day. That news is not considered official; the league won't release its full regular-season schedule until Thursday night. If the Eagles are, in fact, on the holiday menu for the Cowboys, it will mark just the third time the bitter enemies have squared off on the All-American holiday.

Source: Eagles will play in Dallas on Thanksgiving. — Ryan Fowler (@_RyanFowler_) May 11, 2026 It happened last in 2014, when Philly quarterback Mark Sanchez and running back LeSean McCoy outdueled Tony Romo and DeMarco Murray in a 33-10 Eagles win. The first Thanksgiving Day matchup between the two clubs was 1989's infamous "Bounty Bowl" game , in which the Eagles were accused of targeting Cowboys kicker Luis Zendejas and possibly quarterback Troy Aikman, with cash prizes offered to the Philadelphia players who knocked them out of the game.

(The allegations were never definitively proven but remain an accepted chapter within Cowboys-Eagles lore. ) This year's battle would feature- among other juicy storylines- new Cowboys defensive coordinator Christian Parker squaring off against the team whose staff he just left. It may not be the first rematch, though; the Cowboys and Eagles will play twice in 2026, as usual, with the date of their other meeting still unknown.