Steelers Now
The 2025 Pittsburgh Steelers schedule has been released, and after what happened to the team last year, the announcement has taken on a greater level of importance.
The schedule-makers were unkind to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024, with an unprecedented late-season stretch of three games in 11 days, all of them against Super Bowl contenders, and with travel included. The Steelers, somewhat unsurprisingly, finished the season 0-5.
This year’s schedule is not as difficult in terms of the preseason quality of the opposition. But will the order of operations hurt the Steelers this time around?
Week 1: Sunday, Sept. 7, 1 p.m. at New York Jets, CBS
Week 2: Sunday, Sept. 14, 1 p.m. vs. Seattle Seahawks, FOX
Week 3: Sunday, Sept. 21, 1 p.m at New England Patriots, CBS
Week 4: Sunday, Sept. 28, 9:30 a.m. vs. Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, NFL Network
Week 5: BYE
Week 6: Sunday, Oct. 12, 1 p.m. vs. Cleveland Browns, CBS
Week 7: Thursday, Oct. 16, 8:15 at Cincinnati Bengals, Amazon Prime Video
Week 8: Sunday, Oct. 26, 8:20 p.m. vs. Green Bay Packers, NBC/WPXI
Week 9: Sunday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. vs. Indianapolis Colts, CBS
Week 10: Sunday, Nov. 9, 8:20 p.m. at Los Angeles Chargers, NBC/WPXI
Week 11: Sunday, Nov. 16, 1 p.m. vs. Cincinnati Bengals, CBS
Week 12: Sunday, Nov. 23, 1 p.m. at Chicago Bears, CBS
Week 13: Sunday, Nov. 30, 4:25 p.m. vs. Buffalo Bills, CBS
Week 14: Sunday, Dec. 7, 1 p.m. at Baltimore Ravens, CBS
Week 15: Monday, Dec. 15, 8:15 p.m. vs Miami Dolphins, ABC/ESPN
Week 16: Sunday, Dec. 21, 4:25 p.m. at Detroit Lions, CBS
Week 17: Sunday, Dec. 28, 1 p.m. at Cleveland Browns, CBS
Week 18: TBD vs. Baltimore Ravens
Preseason Week 1: Saturday, Aug. 9, TBD at Jacksonville Jaguars
Preseason Week 2: Saturday, Aug. 16, TBD vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers, KDKA
Preseason Week 3: Thursday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m. at Carolina Panthers
The 2025 NFL season will kick off with a script straight out of Hollywood, as the curtain rises at MetLife Stadium for a dramatic showdown between the New York Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers. A season ago, the Steelers benched quarterback Justin Fields despite a 6-2 start ahead of a Week 9 matchup against the Jets. Now, Fields will be on the other sideline, suiting up for New York with a golden opportunity to show his former team that not only was benching him a mistake, but so was failing to prioritize him in free agency.But the fireworks don’t end there.
If the Steelers finalize a deal with four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers, he too will have the chance to face the team that once chose to go in a different direction. In last year’s Week 9 contest, Pittsburgh put up 37 points and handed Rodgers and the Jets a convincing loss. However, with...
