We know exactly who each NFL team will play in 2022.
The mechanics behind the league’s scheduling machine makes that a cut-and-dry affair. Each franchise gets six games against their division rivals, four against a rotating division from the opposite conference, four games against a rotating division from their own conference, two against the teams that finished in the same spot in the divisional standings in their own conference (that aren’t already on the schedule) and one from a cross-conference rival based on the previous year’s standings.
What we don’t know is when those games will take place. Since the NFL equates any kind of downtime with creeping death, the league is taking the opportunity to turn the post-draft lull into a spectacle. The official 2022 schedule will be released Thursday, May 12. The run-up to this non-event event has been dotted with carefully-placed leaks dropping bits and pieces of the upcoming year on football fans.
