{"id":242163,"date":"2025-07-28T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242163\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:29:20","slug":"broncos-week-17-game-vs-bengals-set-for-standalone-slot-on-saturday-dec-28-on-nfl-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242163\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos\u2019 Week 17 game vs. Bengals set for standalone slot on Saturday, Dec. 28 on NFL Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos are poised to play in another standalone game.<\/p>\n<p>Denver will face the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 17 at 2:30 p.m. MT on Saturday, Dec. 28 on NFL Network, the NFL announced Tuesday. The game will air locally on Denver7.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos&#8217; game vs. the Bengals was one of five games that was previously designated as a potential Week 17 Saturday matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Denver&#8217;s matchup with Cincinnati will mark the Broncos&#8217; fourth standalone game of the season, as they will have played prime-time games against the Saints, Browns and Chargers before the Week 17 matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos&#8217; matchup with the Bengals could have a significant impact on playoff seeding, as Denver could continue to move up the AFC standings with additional wins in the final three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals feature one of the top quarterbacks in the league in Joe Burrow and a pair of dynamic receivers in Ja&#8217;Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>Denver has won two consecutive games in Cincinnati, with the most recent victory coming in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The date of the Broncos&#8217; final regular-season game against Kansas City has yet to be announced and will be confirmed following Week 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos are poised to play in another standalone game. Denver will face the Cincinnati&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1010,228,227,256,2296,36906,7,6,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-242163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-denver-broncos-at-cincinnati-bengals-2024-reg-17","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114929687959448636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242163","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=242163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}