Over the past several years, Sunday Night Football has not only become the premier sports package in all of television, it’s become the top rated primetime series in America. As the schedule is released in April though, it’s always a bit of a guessing game beyond the first few weeks. To ensure the best matchups even earlier in the season, the NFL mandated flexing can begin as early as Week 5, which is good news for fans and for NBC. It also will flex the best Week 17 game after the Week 16 games have been completed.
The SNF package does contain two Thursday Night games as well – the season opener and a Thanksgiving night game. This year those contests are a Super Bowl rematch with Panthers-Broncos to kick things off and Steelers-Colts on Thanksgiving night. Here’s the full schedule…
Week 1
Carolina Panthers at Denver Broncos (Thursday)
New England Patriots at Arizona Cardinals (Sunday)
Week 2
Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings
Week 3
Chicago Bears at Dallas Cowboys
Week 4
Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 5 (begin flex scheduling)
New York Giants at Green Bay Packers
Week 6
Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans
Week 7
Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals
Week 8
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys
Week 9
Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders
Week 10
Seattle Seahawks at New England Patriots
Week 11
Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins
Week 12
Pittsburgh Steelers at Indianapolis Colts (Thanksgiving night)
New England Patriots at New York Jets (Sunday)
Week 13
Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks
Week 14
Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants
Week 15
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals
Week 16
Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 17
TBD
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