The Bills will open their new stadium in Week 2.
The NFL announced Monday that Buffalo will host the Lions on Thursday Night Football on Sept. 17. It will be the first game played at Highmark Stadium.
Prime Video will broadcast the game as part of its Thursday Night Football package.
The Bills are replacing their longtime home, which opened as Rich Stadium in 1973, with a new $2 billion facility across Abbott Road.
The Bills have won their past four home openers dating to 2022, averaging 38.5 points per game.
The NFL will announce the full schedule on Thursday.
The five-game package that at one point seemed to be headed for YouTube will instead be split between Netflix and Fox.
Per multiple reports, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Monday that the company will add a pair of nationally-televised games to its existing Sunday afternoon package.
One of the games will originate in Germany, giving Fox the first-ever tripleheader of games on a single day on broadcast TV. That game will be hosted by the Lions. That game will be played on Sunday, November 15.
The other game will be played on the Saturday of Week 15, in December.
Earlier this year, the NFL invited partners to bid on a five-game package. After YouTube emerged as the favorite, it changed to YouTube getting nothing. The other two companies that were among the three finalists — Netflix and Fox — will divide the quintet of standalone games. Netflix has three (giving it five for the season), and Fox has two.
The NFL will announce the full 2026 schedule on Thursday, May 14, but the league’s international slate of games will be revealed earlier than the domestic ones.
The matchups for this year’s international games will be announced on NFL Network at 9 a.m. eastern time on Wednesday.
Nine international games are on the docket this year, but the matchups for two of them have already been announced. The 49ers and Rams will meet up in Melbourne in Week 1 and the Cowboys will face the Ravens in Rio in Week 3.
One team in each of the other seven games is already known. The Jaguars will play in London twice and the Commanders will be involved in the city’s third game. The 49ers will be in Mexico City, the Falcons will be in Madrid, the Lions will be in Munich and the Saints will take part in the NFL’s first game in Paris.
After trading Dexter Lawrence, the Giants have brought in a veteran defensive tackle.
According to multiple reports, New York has agreed to terms with D.J. Reader on a two-year contract.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the deal is worth $12.5 million in base salary and can reach $15.5 million with incentives.
Reader, who turns 32 in July, spent the last two seasons with the Lions. He started all 17 games for Detroit in 2025, playing 53 percent of the club’s defensive snaps. He finished with 28 total tackles and four QB hits.
In his 10 seasons, Reader has registered 12.5 sacks, 27 tackles for loss, and 56 QB hits. He’s appeared in 137 games with 128 starts for Houston, Cincinnati, and Detroit.
Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold’s second NFL season was hampered by a shoulder injury that led him to have surgery early in the offseason, but he doesn’t think it will continue to be an issue when the team gets to training camp this summer.
Arnold told Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press that he doesn’t know what he’ll be able to do before the offseason program, but “I know I’m expected to be there” once the Lions hit the field for camp in August. Once he’s back, the 2024 first-round pick will be trying to build on what he considered to be a step forward in his second NFL season.
“Before I got hurt I was getting in my groove, figuring things out,” Arnold said. “Started playing my best ball and then just dealing with that injury, nagging it, so I’m just excited to see where I’ll be at with not having any injuries and just really looking forward to being out there with my team.”
The Lions are hoping to bounce back from a disappointing 9-8 record that kept them out of the playoffs last season. Arnold’s return to health won’t get that done on its own, but it would be a boost to those hopes in Detroit.
