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Best AFC 2025 NFL Draft picks<\/p>\n

USA TODAY’s Tyler Dragon breaks down which teams in the AFC drafted the best this year.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

The Denver Broncos<\/a> made a big-time quarterback change between the 2023 and 2024 NFL seasons. Out went high-priced veteran Russell Wilson<\/a> and in came first-round rookie Bo Nix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Few knew what to expect from Nix in his first NFL season. There were expected to be growing pains with the long-time college quarterback, who was the sixth quarterback chosen in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

But Nix proved ready for the limelight. He got off to a slow start over his first few games before rounding into a solid starter. He and Denver’s top-ranked defense in EPA<\/a> helped the Broncos<\/a> make the playoffs for the first time since their Super Bowl 50 win. However, they were unable to get a win, losing 31-7 to the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n

Sean Payton’s squad will look to improve those postseason results in 2025. Denver has added significant upgrades to its roster and notably continued to fortify its already strong defense by signing linebacker Dre Greenlaw<\/a> and safety Talanoa Hufanga<\/a> away from the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those acquisitions and continued growth from Nix could help Denver blossom into a legitimate Super Bowl contender. That said, the Broncos don’t necessarily have an easy path to doing so, especially since they play in a division with two other playoff teams from last season, the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> and three-time reigning AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who will the Broncos play during the 2025 NFL season? Here’s their full list of opponents as the NFL’s schedule release approaches.<\/p>\n

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Broncos 2025 opponents<\/p>\n

Here’s the full list of Broncos opponents for 2025:<\/p>\n

HomeCincinnati BengalsDallas CowboysGreen Bay PackersJacksonville JaguarsKansas City ChiefsLos Angeles ChargersLas Vegas RaidersNew York GiantsTennessee TitansRoadHouston TexansIndianapolis ColtsKansas City ChiefsLos Angeles ChargersLas Vegas RaidersNew York JetsPhiladelphia EaglesWashington Commanders<\/p>\n

As always, the Broncos are set to face their AFC West divisional opponents twice during the 2025 NFL season. They will also play each AFC South and NFC East team as part of the league’s yearly rotating schedule.<\/p>\n

The Broncos’ final three opponents \u2013 the Bengals, Jets and Packers \u2013 were determined based on Denver’s third-place finish in its division last season.<\/p>\n

When is the 2025 NFL schedule release?<\/p>\n

The NFL is set to reveal its 2025 schedule in full on Wednesday, May 14. On that date, the NFL will reveal its entire 18-week slate of matchups and bye weeks for each team.<\/p>\n

This year’s schedule release will be held one day earlier than last year’s, which was on May 15. The NFL announced the full 2024 schedule at 8 p.m. ET that night, so fans can expect a similar release time for this year’s schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best AFC 2025 NFL Draft picks USA TODAY’s Tyler Dragon breaks down which teams in the AFC drafted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[821,247,265,8048,925,232,868,867,877,321,231,258,2426,4329,1160,7,4330,677,679,248,267,88,6,8049,869,245,537,530,2942,572,818,817,829,9,266,819,678,776,1434],"class_list":{"0":"post-23477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-bo","12":"tag-bo-nix","13":"tag-broncos","14":"tag-commerce","15":"tag-contains","16":"tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","17":"tag-content","18":"tag-denver","19":"tag-denver-broncos","20":"tag-denverbroncos","21":"tag-dre","22":"tag-dre-greenlaw","23":"tag-football","24":"tag-greenlaw","25":"tag-modular","26":"tag-modular-story","27":"tag-national","28":"tag-national-sports","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-nix","32":"tag-or","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-positive","35":"tag-positive","36":"tag-russell","37":"tag-russell-wilson","38":"tag-scores","39":"tag-sport","40":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-statistics","44":"tag-story","45":"tag-u0026","46":"tag-wilson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114450408788857392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}