Updated May 11, 2026, 11:55 a.m. ET

We’re now days away from the 2026 NFL schedule reveal, and those matchups have come into sharper focus after free agency and the NFL draft. In 2024, the schedule was revealed on May 15, with the Brazil game announced one month earlier on April 10. The year prior in 2023, the NFL announced its 18-week, 272-game regular-season schedule on May 12. Last off-season, the schedule dropped on May 14.

According to Warren Sharp, Baltimore has the sixth-easiest schedule in the NFL this year, with two other AFC North rivals landing in the top five. Rounding out the top five easiest schedules are the New York Jets (5th), Cleveland Browns (4th), Cincinnati Bengals (3rd), New Orleans Saints (2nd), and Detroit Lions (1st).

The second-place finish in the AFC North will give Jesse Minter’s team a middle-of-the-pack schedule in 2026.

With the regular season now complete, Baltimore’s 2026 opponents are set. Their schedule will be one of the league’s most demanding. They will face the gauntlet of juggernauts in the NFC South and AFC South and the second-place finishers in the AFC West, NFC East, and AFC East.

Home Opponents

Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Los Angeles Chargers.

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Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, Carolina Panthers, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys.

2025 playoff teams

Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Chargers, Carolina Panthers

Strength of schedule from easiest (1) to hardest (32)1 Detroit Lions 10.52 New Orleans Saints 7.53 Cincinnati Bengals 9.54 Cleveland Browns 6.55 New York Jets 5.57 Philadelphia Eagles 10.58 San Francisco 49ers 10.59 Indianapolis Colts 8.510 Kansas City Chiefs 10.512 New England Patriots 9.513 Tennessee Titans 6.514 Buffalo Bills 10.515 Jacksonville Jaguars 9.518 Pittsburgh Steelers 8.519 Las Vegas Raiders 5.520 Atlanta Falcons 7.521 Los Angeles Chargers 10.523 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8.526 Houston Texans 9.528 Los Angeles Rams 11.529 Dallas Cowboys 8.530 Carolina Panthers 6.532 Arizona Cardinals 4.5