While the Broncos will finish the season at home, they’ll travel often in the first several weeks of the season. Following Denver’s Week 1 game at home, the team will play just one more home game before Oct. 19. Denver will play consecutive road games vs. the Colts in Week 2 (Sunday, Sept. 14, 2:05 p.m. MT, CBS) and the Chargers in Week 3 (Sunday, Sept. 21, 2:05 p.m. MT, CBS) before the team’s lone home game in that 40-day stretch. The Week 4 meeting with the Bengals (Monday, Sept. 29, 6:15 p.m. MT, ABC) will represent the 33rd time in the last 34 years that the Broncos will play on “Monday Night Football.” Denver will then travel to play at the Eagles (Sunday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m. MT, CBS) and in London against the Jets (Sunday, Oct. 12, 7:30 a.m. MT, NFLN).
Unlike in 2022, the Broncos will not have their bye week after their trip overseas. The bye week comes later — in Week 12 — and Denver will return from London to play four of its next five games at home.
After a Week 7 matchup with the New York Giants (Sunday, Oct. 19, 2:05 p.m., CBS) and Week 8 meeting with the Cowboys (Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:25 p.m., CBS), the Broncos will travel to face the Texans (Sunday, Nov. 2, 11 a.m. MT, FOX). They’ll finish the home stretch before the bye with a Week 10 “Thursday Night Football” battle against the Raiders (Thursday, Nov. 6, 6:15 p.m. MT, Prime Video) and a Week 11 home meeting with the Chiefs (Sunday, Nov. 16, 2:25 p.m. MT, CBS). The Broncos have won 11 of their last 16 games before the bye.
Following the Week 12 bye, the Broncos will play back-to-back road games for the final time in the season. Denver is 26-11 all-time following its bye week, and Head Coach Sean Payton is 11-6 after the bye. The Broncos have won both of their games after the bye (at Buffalo, 2023; vs. Indianapolis, 2024) during Payton’s tenure in Denver.
The first of those two road games will feature the top two rookie quarterbacks from 2024, as Bo Nix and Jayden Daniels will face off on “Sunday Night Football” at Northwest Stadium (Sunday, Nov. 30, 6:20 p.m. MT, NBC). The Broncos last played on “Sunday Night Football” on the road in 2021.
Denver then travels to Las Vegas to conclude the season series in Week 14 (Sunday, Dec. 7, 2:05 p.m. MT, CBS).
While Denver will not play three consecutive road games at any point, the schedule does feature back-to-back road games on three occasions (Weeks 2 & 3; Weeks 5 & 6; Weeks 13 & 14).
Denver’s schedule includes games against each team in the AFC South and NFC East and against the 2024 third-place finishers in the AFC North, AFC East and NFC North.
The Broncos’ preseason opponents were also announced on Wednesday. Denver will travel to play the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1 of the preseason, host the Arizona Cardinals in Week 2 and visit the New Orleans Saints in the final preseason tune-up.