{"id":895736,"date":"2026-05-19T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/895736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:33:17","slug":"washington-commanders-announce-finalized-2026-preseason-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/895736\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders announce finalized 2026 preseason schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commanders.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Commanders preseason schedule<\/a> is officially set. The date and time of Washington\u2019s Week 2 exhibition against the Detroit Lions were the only details outstanding, and the team announced them on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They\u2019ll play the Lions on Aug. 22 at noon ET in a game that will be broadcast locally on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WUSA 9<\/a>, the CBS affiliate in the Washington D.C. media market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the preseason schedule in its entirety:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Week 1: vs. Miami Dolphins, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. ET <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Week 2: at Detroit Lions, Aug. 22 at noon ET <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. ET <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All three games will be on WUSA 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Commanders have also scheduled a pair of joint practice dates around these preseason affairs. They\u2019ll host a joint practice with the Dolphins on Aug. 12 at the Commanders\u2019 training facility. They\u2019ll also conduct a joint practice with Baltimore on Aug. 26, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickiJhabvala\/status\/2056779011661902060?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">per The Athletic<\/a>, on Aug. 26 in Owings Mills, Maryland, where the Ravens train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commanders preseason schedule is officially set. The date and time of Washington\u2019s Week 2 exhibition against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,147,6,10421],"class_list":["post-895736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl","tag-washington-commanders-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116602916314267194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895736","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=895736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}