Bills 2025 home schedule gauntlet of NFL elites

Shortly after the Bills win over the Jets, the NFL released the home and away schedule for 2025, and the Bills will have their work cut out for them.

Ronnie Eastham | Dec 29, 2024

Oct 10, 2021; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) talks with Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) before the game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. / Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images

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The 2024 season isn't over just yet, with still one week remaining in the regular season, followed by postseason play, when teams begin their pursuit of NFL immortality, winning the Lombardi trophy. But that won't stop us from looking ahead to next year. The NFL recently released the team's 2025 home and away opponents, and the Bills will face a gauntlet of the NFL's elite quarterbacks and teams, but in the friendly confines of Highmark Stadium.

We don't know the dates yet and that won't come out until about mid-May, but we now know who the opponents are. The list includes the league's top quarterbacks when the Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, and Philadelphia Eagles come to One Bills Drive. Buffalo will also host Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Bucs, in addition to their usual divisional showdowns with the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, and New York Jets. The Patriots are the most interesting, with Drake Maye playing as well as he has, and will only continue to improve.

The last time the Eagles came to Orchard Park, they thrashed the Bills in front of their home crowd 31-13. The Bengals visited a year ago, defeating the Bills 27-10, but the last time the Chiefs, Ravens, and Bucs visited, the Bills came away with the win. We all remember the last time the Ravens were in Highmark. That game gave us one of the biggest plays in Bills history with Taron Johnson's 100-plus yard pick-six.

Rain comes down steady hours before the Buffalo Bills home game at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park on Dec. 29, 2024. / Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Bills finished the 2024 regular season undefeated at home for the first time since 1990, but with next year's slate of home games, they will be hard-pressed to repeat that feat. Fortunately, Bills general manager Brandon Beane will have some cap space to load up on the defensive side. They will certainly need it next year when they take on the NFL's elite.