While we’re patiently awaiting the 2025 NFL schedule release, it’s never too early to talk matchups. We don’t need to wait for the football gods to tell us which games are going to be played in Prime Time slots for us to anticipate Prime Time levels of action. 

We already know each teams’ future opponents, and that’s more than enough to work with!

I’ve rigorously analyzed every single outcome imaginable based on the data available and determined the most anticipated NFL matchups to ever be labeled “TBD”. 

Here are the Top 5 2025 games we’d like to see ahead of the NFL’s schedule release:

Predicting The Top Five Games Ahead of The NFL Schedule Release

1.  NE vs BUF: Reunited and It Feels So… Sad

Despite his ongoing legacy throughout the NFL, Stefon Diggs’ time in Buffalo was his most infamous. Not only was his time in Buffalo his most successful string of years with any team, logging four consecutive 1,000+ yards seasons, but it was also where he turned and blossomed from WR to BFF.  

Despite his grievances over targets, Josh Allen and Diggs seemed to really be in sync during their time together. Not only were they in sync on the field, but they often showcased their friendship off the field with photo ops.

However, things took a turn for the worse and Diggs’ headed to Houston in 2024, where he spent most of the season watching from the sidelines after an ACL tear that he suffered in October. Diggs will start 2025 in another new uniform, as he joins the Patriots. And regardless of Diggs and Allen’s current friendship status, they’ll get to meet up in 2025—TWICE. 

Both the Bills and Patriots will host each other once this year. Which means we’ll have twice as many chances for Diggs and Allen to reunite after the games. This will be Diggs’ first time playing against Allen since their ice-cold post-game reunion at the start of 2024. 

Let’s just hope Diggs gets the opportunity (read: targets) to  show off in front of his former team—otherwise we might hear some complaints about it on social media. 

2. PHI vs GB: Tush Push Payback

Payback is on the menu, boys and girls! 

The Philadelphia Eagles will face off against the Green Bay Packers only once in 2025, but it’s shaping up to be one of my personal favorite rivalries of the season.

Why? This matchup will be the first time the teams face off since Green Bay’s whiney-baby attempt to ban the tush push this offseason. And given the narrative, the Eagles will have to push Jalen Hurts into the end zone at least once to put the final nail in the bitter-sweet coffin during their game. If we’re lucky, we’ll see several attempts—something Philly is really good at.

The Eagles attempted the tush push 48 times in 2024, scoring a TD or securing a 1st down 81.3% of the time. So, it’s safe to say the odds of them executing a TD against the Packers via the tush push are very high.  

Unless … you know … the tush push gets banned before then. 

And if the Eagles can’t shove each other across the goal line… Shucks. I guess they’ll just have to run the ball down Green Bay’s throat with Saquon Barkley instead. You know, the guy who just finished the 2024 regular season with 2,005 yards. 

Either way, go birds!

3. NO vs CHI: Dennis Allen’s Worst Nightmare

With the New Orleans Saints scheduled to play against the Chicago Bears on the road in 2025, there is one big looming injury-reserve-sized-elephant in the room. 

In 2024, there was a lot of tension between the Saints’ at-the-time HC Dennis Allen and their at-the-time RB prodigy, Kendre Miller. But much of Miller’s exciting future was stifled by his time spent on IR. 

Miller returned to the field after his first IR stint for two games before the second infamous Dennis Allen-induced IR designation. Rumors swirled as Miller, himself, stated he was healthy and called into question Allen’s decision.

But this wasn’t the first time either Saint seemed to be at odds with the other. Whether the rumors of Miller’s lackluster work ethic were true, or if he truly was injured, the fact remains that Allen seemed to hate the guy on the field and off. And although Allen was ultimately fired shortly after, Miller’s IR designation remained a reminder of the feud and Allen’s lingering control over Miller’s play time.

Fast-forwarding to 2025, Dennis Allen is now the DC in Chicago. And while the Saints did draft RB Devin Neal in April, Miller remains on the team. If Miller can stay off of IR for his matchup against the Bears this year, it could pan out to be the revenge game he needs to prove himself to Allen … and to Saints fans who’ve patiently awaited his “breakout year”. 

4. SEA vs MIN: Sam Darnold Revenge Game?

The Seahawks have gone through changes this offseason, to put it mildly. Seattle no longer has Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf, or Geno Smith on the team. But they do have Sam Darnold! Who looked really good in 2024 … until he didn’t. 

  • 2024 Regular season games: 4,319 yards, 35 TDs, 14 wins
  • 2024 Postseason game when it mattered most: 1 TD, 1 INT, 1 loss

Darnold now has a fresh chance to shake off his 2024 postseason past, where he completed only 25 of 40 attempts in the Vikings’ 27-9 loss against the Rams last January. If he can return to his 300-yard, multi-TD caliber performances in Seattle … Well, we just might have a revenge game on our hands, boys and girls!! 

I can see it now. Sam Darnold faces off against the Vikings on his new home turf. Throwing to … (checks notes) Oh! RIGHT! Cooper f*cking Kupp and Jaxon Smith-Njigba!

You got this, Sammy! Probably! Maybe? I mean … if you haven’t lost your job to Jalen Milroe by then.

5. NYG vs TBD: Jameis Winston QB1

Yes, you read that right. 

Look, I know that the Giants just drafted QB Jaxson Dart. And I know that the Giants are paying Russell Wilson like their QB1.

But I also know that Jameis Winston is inevitable.

I don’t know when it will be. I don’t know how it will happen. But there will be a game in 2025 where Jameis gets to take the wheel and drive. And when he does, he’s going to pop the f*cking top off of Malik Nabers’ ceiling just like he did with Jerry Jeudy in Cleveland in 2024. Mark my words.

And if you’re not rooting for 70+ yard TD bombs from Jameis Winston to Malik Nabers during some random ass week in 2025 … Why do you hate fun?