Why is the NFL allowed to play a doubleheader on Dec. 20 at the same time as the first weekend of the College Football Playoff? Here's what to know.

But the two games that went head-to-head with the NFL brought up the rear. Ratings for Clemson-Texas (8.6 million) and Penn State-SMU (6.4 million) paled in comparison to the Friday (Notre Dame-Indiana, 13.4 million) and Saturday night (Ohio State-Tennessee, 14.3 million) games that didn't go up against the NFL.

There's a lot of optimism around the 2025 New England Patriots, and we'll finally find out when they'll play when the full NFL schedule is released Wednesday night.

The NFL is releasing the entire 2025 schedule on Wednesday. Here are all the rumored matchups leaked ahead of that date.

On Sunday, Nov. 16, Jayden Daniels’ Washington Commanders will take on Tua Tagovailoa’s Miami Dolphins at Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in a week 11 matchup that also happens to be the first-ever NFL game in Spain.

No team will have a more arduous travel schedule during the 2025 NFL regular season than the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers top the chart tabulated by Bookies.com's Bills Speros with a total travel distance of 37,086 miles, beating out the Los Angeles Rams and their total mileage of 34,832.

A league official did not mention political currents in her statement, instead attributing the cancellation to the league’s annual offseason review of its programs effectiveness and “ways to make them more impactful.

The NFL has decided to cancel the Accelerator program that would have taken place next week during the latest round of league meetings in Minneapolis, citing a need for improvements. The tool is meant to promote diversity hiring practices on the head coaching and front office levels.

Spring is the time of optimism in the NFL with most teams hopeful that the moves made this offseason will lead to success in the fall.

Running back is the ficklest of all NFL positions. With the steady decline of the feature back and more teams embracing a platoon approach to their backfields, there is far less year-to-year consistency at the position than there was in previous eras.