{"id":893778,"date":"2026-05-17T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/893778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:33:19","slug":"nfl-considered-new-york-giants-vs-seahawks-to-open-2026-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/893778\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL considered New York Giants vs. Seahawks to open 2026 regular season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Giants Wire;\" href=\"https:\/\/giantswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Giants Wire\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"141\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-12\/32c27280-34d3-11eb-97d7-e98a906da1a6.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Sun, May 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"648\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_giants_wire_450\/f4ec96f05a82a06e8d617b0801303d69.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NFL considered New York Giants vs. Seahawks to open 2026 regular season?<\/p>\n<p>The NFL selected the <a data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> to face the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in the 2026 season opener on Thursday Night Football, marking a Super Bowl rematch.<\/p>\n<p>However, word from <a data-ylk=\"slk:Windy City Gridiron;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/chicago-bears-schedule\/116510\/giants-not-bears-were-nfls-2nd-choice-after-patriots-for-nfl-kickoff-game\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Windy City Gridiron<\/a> suggests the league had another prominent option in mind: The <a data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Windy City Gridiron has learned that if the NFL went a different direction and didn\u2019t select the Patriots for that game, they would have selected the New York Giants. The NFL believes the Giants are a team on the rise, and with John Harbaugh coaching his first game in New York, the NFL felt that that would have been the best option after the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>This consideration, assuming the report&#8217;s accuracy, highlights the league&#8217;s view of the Giants as an ascending franchise under new leadership.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of the Seahawks, the Giants will open their season on Sunday Night Football against the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Cowboys;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> on September 13, just two days after the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, allowing them to host in a symbolically significant game.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants and Seahawks are scheduled to meet later in the Week 14 afternoon slate.<\/p>\n<p>While intriguing, this report remains unconfirmed speculation and has not appeared in other major outlets. The actual choice underscores the NFL&#8217;s preference for high-profile narratives in primetime openers.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: <a data-ylk=\"slk:NFL considered Giants vs. Seahawks to open 2026 regular season?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/giantswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/giants\/2026\/05\/17\/nfl-considered-new-york-giants-seahawks-open-2026-regular-season\/90129165007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NFL considered Giants vs. Seahawks to open 2026 regular season?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, May 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM UTC NFL considered New York Giants vs. Seahawks to open 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,2909,249,56,6,238,237,261,2635,1799,1299,11271],"class_list":{"0":"post-893778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-john-harbaugh","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-the-giants","18":"tag-thursday-night-football","19":"tag-windy-city-gridiron"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116590412105208476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893778","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=893778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}