The NFL poorly announced that the 2025 football schedule would be revealed on May 14. Roughly two weeks away from the reveal has us wondering just what this schedule could look like. We know the opponents, so that won’t be a shock, but what will the order look like for Jim Harbaugh and company in year two?
The 2025 schedule includes nine home games and eight road games. Outside of the AFC West, that breaks down to six games against non-divisional foes at SoFi Stadium and five away from the friendly confines of sunny Los Angeles. This is the season that LA will play the AFC South and NFC East. The remaining three games on the schedule include second-place teams from last season, the Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Minnesota Vikings.
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The 2025 NFL schedule will be released on Wednesday, May 14, at 5 p.m. PT.
Chargers’ last 10 season openers
Over the last 10 seasons, LA has opened the season at home six times versus four times on the road. Half of those instances came against AFC West competition. The Bolts haven’t opened back-to-back seasons against a divisional foe since they did it three straight years from 2016 to 2018.
Could the Chargers play on Thanksgiving this year? The last time they did came on Nov. 23, 2017, against the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys are on the schedule as an away game this season, so it could happen. LA has only played on Thanksgiving five times in franchise history, four coming before the NFL merger. The Chargers are 3-1-1 in those games, including the 28-6 win over Dallas in 2017. In that game, Philip Rivers carved up the defense to the tune of 434 passing yards and three touchdowns.
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Wherever the Vikings game lands on the schedule, it will mark the first time that Harbaugh will face his former quarterback, whom he coached to a CFP national championship when at Michigan.
This article originally appeared on Chargers Wire: Chargers 2025 schedule: What we know ahead of NFL’s reveal