The NFL launched its full schedule for the 2025 season on Wednesday. Right here is the blockbuster sport (and one other intriguing matchup) for each workforce within the AFC North.
Baltimore Ravens | Complete schedule
BLOCKBUSTER | at Buffalo Payments, Sept. 7 (Week 1):
Beginning the season off with a doubtlessly traditional Sunday Evening matchup, and a possible AFC Championship preview. Baltimore and Buffalo are two of the most effective groups within the NFL, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are two of the most effective quarterbacks within the NFL and it’s a rematch of final 12 months’s divisional playoff sport that got here right down to a two-point conversion try late within the fourth quarter.
ALSO INTRIGUING | at Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Sept. 28 (Week 4):
The Ravens’ early-season schedule is loaded with an absolute assassin’s row of potential Tremendous Bowl contenders, together with Buffalo in Week 1, Detroit in Week 3, Kansas Metropolis in Week 4 and Houston in Week 5. That is about as troublesome a stretch as a workforce can have by way of the primary 5 weeks and will make-or-break their season. The Week 4 sport in opposition to Kansas Metropolis is one other potential AFC Championship Sport preview.
Cincinnati Bengals | Complete schedule
BLOCKBUSTER | at Baltimore Ravens, Nov. 27 (Week 13):
Cincinnati and Baltimore ought to determine to be the favorites within the AFC North, and their first assembly of the season is available in a primetime, Thursday evening sport on Thanksgiving. Cincinnati misplaced each of the 2024 conferences by a mixed 4 factors. They have been one or two gamers away from successful each, which might have simply put them into the playoffs.
ALSO INTRIGUING | at Buffalo Payments, Dec. 7 (Week 14):
Cincinnati’s stretch of video games between Weeks 13 and 15 is by far its hardest stretch of the season. It’s throughout that stretch the place they play each Baltimore video games, after which have a highway sport at Buffalo sandwiched into the center of it. Joe Burrow vs. Josh Allen goes to be among the finest quarterback matchups of the season.
Cleveland Browns | Complete schedule
BLOCKBUSTER | at Baltimore Ravens, Sept. 14 (Week 2):
There’s all the time historical past and unhealthy blood when the Ravens and Browns meet, however this one is also fascinating relying on who the Browns’ beginning quarterback is. Whether it is Joe Flacco — because it most likely could be — it will nearly actually be certainly one of Flacco’s ultimate video games in Baltimore, the town the place he began his profession and gained a Tremendous Bowl.
ALSO INTRIGUING | at Pittsburgh Steelers, Oct. 12 (Week 6):
Alongside the identical strains because the Week 2 sport in Baltimore, this might largely come right down to who the beginning quarterback is.
The Browns-Steelers rivalry has been fairly even the previous few years, with home-field benefit largely dictating who wins. However the sub-plot to this may very well be Kenny Pickett returning to Pittsburgh and doubtlessly taking part in in opposition to the workforce that made him a first-round decide.
Pittsburgh Steelers | Complete schedule
BLOCKBUSTER | at New York Jets, Sept. 7 (Week 1):
This, in fact, is assuming that Aaron Rodgers finally decides to signal with the Steelers, as has been rumored for the previous few months. If he does, you may have Rodgers going in opposition to the Jets after his failed tenure there, and Justin Fields opening his Jets profession in opposition to the workforce that benched him after a 4-2 begin a 12 months in the past. That’s some good intrigue.
ALSO INTRIGUING | vs. Inexperienced Bay Packers, Oct. 26 (Week 8):
One other potential Aaron Rodgers revenge sport (once more, with the belief that he indicators in Pittsburgh), and this one can be on prime-time on a Sunday evening in Pittsburgh. Rodgers has by no means had an opportunity to play in opposition to Inexperienced Bay after spending a decade-and-a-half as its quarterback and making it a yearly Tremendous Bowl contender.
