{"id":65668,"date":"2025-05-20T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65668\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:35:12","slug":"detroit-lions-2025-preseason-includes-games-against-chargers-falcons-dolphins-and-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65668\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions 2025 preseason includes games against Chargers, Falcons, Dolphins, and Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2D2C829C08F150D38C3051C4A60F6F53.jpg\" alt=\"Lions ranked 4th best in NFL\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-44b63364=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/video\/1637306\" data-v-44b63364=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions ranked 4th best in NFL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-44b63364=\"\">The Detroit Lions fell short of the Super Bowl goal last year but hopes are high again in the Motor City and they&#8217;ve been ranked the 4th best team in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">(FOX 2) &#8211; The Detroit Lions preseason games were announced on Tuesday with the Chargers, Falcons, Dolphins, and Texans all on the schedule.<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">Detroit and Los Angeles are the only two teams playing a fourth preseason game with both squaring off in the Hall of Fame Game.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-d11d7278=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">The Detroit Lions preseason schedule dropped on social media Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">The exhibition games against the Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins, and Houston Texans kick off another highly-anticipated season for the team, which is reloaded and hoping for another playoff push in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">But before the postseason and regular season, the Lions will get their first look at the rookies they drafted this offseason.<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">The Lions also play the Chargers at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio as part of the Hall of Fame Game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-d11d7278=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">The Lions&#8217; schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<p> Los Angeles Chargers &#8211; Thursday, July 31 at 8 p.m. The game will air on NBCAtlanta Falcons &#8211; Friday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m., airing on Lions TV NetworkMiami Dolphins &#8211; Saturday, Aug. 16 at 1 p.m., airing on Lions TV NetworkHouston Texans &#8211; Saturday, Aug. 23 at 1 p.m., airing on Lions TV Network <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-d11d7278=\"\">What Else:<\/p>\n<p data-v-d11d7278=\"\">FOX 2 is planning on carrying the preseason games live, broadcasting on TV and streaming on web.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The Detroit Lions social media posted the team&#8217;s preseason schedule, which was used while reporting this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/nfl\/lions\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-d11d7278=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/ford-field\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-d11d7278=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ford Field<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/wayne-county\/detroit\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-d11d7278=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions ranked 4th best in NFL The Detroit Lions fell short of the Super Bowl goal last year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,146,224,7,10955,147,5264,88,6,800,15004],"class_list":{"0":"post-65668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-ford-field","15":"tag-lions","16":"tag-mi","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wayne-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114541843168063566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65668","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=65668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}