NFL.com ranked the top 10 upcoming prime-time games<\/a> \u2014 and the Broncos’ meetings with the Bengals and Chiefs made the list.<\/p>\nThe Week 4 “Monday Night Football” matchup with the Bengals earned the No. 8 spot on the list, as NFL.com pointed to last year’s thriller in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
“This will pit the NFL’s reigning passing yards leader against the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and a top-three scoring defense in a rematch of one of last season’s great, underrated games,” Jeremy Bergman wrote. “‘Nough said. Well, not enough said. The Bengals’ 30-24 overtime win over Denver in Week 17 of the 2024 campaign was a season-saving thriller for Cincy, featuring 28 combined points in the fourth quarter and seven total touchdowns from Joe Burrow and Bo Nix.”<\/p>\n
Will there be more points in store in 2025? NFL.com believes that could be the case.<\/p>\n
“In the two franchises’ first prime-time showings of the 2025 campaign, might we see even more fireworks at high altitude?” Bergman wrote.<\/p>\n
Denver’s Christmas Day matchup with the Chiefs also made the list and came in at the No. 6 spot.<\/p>\n
“After a shock run to the postseason in 2024, the Broncos get the Chiefs on Christmas in the penultimate week of the season,” Bergman wrote. “Denver narrowly lost to Kansas City on a blocked field-goal attempt in these two squads’ only competitive game against each other of 2024 (K.C. rested its starters in the other contest, a laugher for the Broncos in Week 18). In the Broncos’ return to Arrowhead this year, can they perhaps block the Chiefs’ try for a 10th straight division title? Hopefully, there will be a lot to unpack in this one on Christmas night.”<\/p>\n
For a complete look at the Broncos’ prime-time slate \u2014 which also includes games against the Raiders and Commanders \u2014 click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lead The Broncos are slated to play four prime-time games during their 2025 NFL campaign, and NFL.com…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,5109,6,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-52624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-mile-high-morning","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114513020469070914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624","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=52624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}