The Broncos know who they’re playing in the 2026 season.
They’ll soon know when.
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The league has turned its schedule release into a televised event and teams all dress up their schedule announcements as big reveals.
Sean Payton’s team, in particular, may have a couple of games publicly announced before the full Thursday reveal because each broadcaster announces a game or two in the run-up to Thursday. Denver is likely to be a primetime fixture given its 2025 run to the AFC Championship Game, the high expectations for the team this fall and the rating the club always draws.
The Broncos have got a tough slate regardless of how it breaks out, including 10 games against 2025 playoff teams.
The Broncos do not appear to be a strong candidate to fill one of the remaining openings in the international slate. The only game still out there that Denver could play from an opponent standpoint is in Mexico City against San Francisco.
Payton said earlier this spring, though, that the Broncos would ask the league to play two of their four East Coast road games back-to-back, allowing them to stay on the road as they did in 2024 between wins at Tampa Bay and the New York Jets.
Here is Denver’s full opponent slate for 2026:
Home: Kansas City, L.A. Chargers, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Miami, Jacksonville, L.A. Rams and Seattle.
Road: Kansas City, L.A. Chargers, Las Vegas, New England, N.Y. Jets, San Francisco, Arizona, Pittsburgh and Carolina.
