Following all the 2026 schedule rumors and news for Bills

In just over 24 hours, the NFL will officially release the league schedule for the 2026 season. This comes

By Thursday at the absolute latest, we’ll know the entirety of the Buffalo Bills’ 2026 schedule. But it’s become common practice for the league — and its broadcast partners — to slowly roll out schedule-based content throughout the week ahead of the schedule release.

The schedule release has become the NFL’s tentpole event for the month of May. It adeptly fills a void in NFL action (everything NFL-related has become can’t-miss content this century), keeping fans glued to news outlets to find out when their favorite team will play every opponent later in the fall.

For many, the NFL schedule release serves as a calendar planner for the second half of each year. Immediately following every team’s schedule release, there’s a spike in airfare searches/bookings as folks do all they can to plan football-focused trips well in advance.

Though we haven’t seen a ton of reliable information on Buffalo’s forthcoming opponent schedule this time around, there are a few nuggets of information (i.e. rumors) to whet Bills Mafia’s appetite. This article will seek to provide Rumblings readers with a catch-call tracker for the rumors, leaks, and released information Bills’ fans want to know.

We do know who Buffalo’s 2026 opponents will be, based on the NFL’s rotating opponent formula. In 2026, the Bills will play their usual AFC East rival twice, plus the NFC North, AFC West, and three second-place teams from 2025 — the latter of those opponents decided after finishing second in their division. The 17th game was determined by the AFC East versus NFC West matchup (for the Bills’ case, the Los Angeles Rams).

Here’s a full list of the home and away split:

Buffalo Bills’ 2026 home opponents
New York Jets
New England Patriots
Miami Dolphins
Detroit Lions
Chicago Bears
Kansas City Chiefs
Los Angeles Chargers
Baltimore Ravens

Buffalo Bills’ 2026 away opponents
Jets
Patriots
Dolphins
Denver Broncos
Las Vegas Raiders
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
Houston Texans
Los Angeles Rams

According to Warren Sharp, who bases Strength of Schedule on Vegas win total predictions for opponents, Buffalo is projected to have the 14th-easiest schedule in the NFL — and that could be why, according to the folks over at FanDuel Sportsbook, the Bills are once again the favorites to win the AFC East (-130). They have the best odds to make the playoffs in the AFC (-330), and are expected to contend for a Super Bowl (+1000 to win).

As new rumors about the Bills’ schedule emerge, we will continue to update this post, including a full list of Buffalo’s 2026 games when they’re announced:

Latest Bills schedule news, rumors, and leaks:

• 5/11: CONFIRMED: Lions at Bills on Thursday Night Football in Week 2

Bills 2026 schedule leaks:

(Primetime games are bolded, nationally televised games are in italics)

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Week 2 — CONFIRMED: Lions at Bills (NFL on Prime Thursday Night Football)
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