The Rams and Seahawks played three nail-biters during the 2025 season and the NFL is banking on another one on Christmas night.
The matchup of NFC West teams will cap a three-game slate on Christmas this year. The Friday night game on December 25 will take place in Seattle and it will be broadcast by Fox.
Los Angeles won 21-19 at home last November, but lost 38-37 in overtime in Seattle later in the regular season. The final meeting between the clubs came in the NFC Championship Game and was a 31-27 Seahawks win.
Netflix will kick off the day’s games with a doubleheader that starts with the Packers visiting the Bears at 1 p.m. ET. The Bills will be in Denver at 4:30 p.m. ET in a rematch of last season’s divisional round game that the Broncos won in overtime.
With Christmas Eve falling on a Thursday, there will also be a game on Amazon Prime Video that night. The Eagles will travel to Houston to face the Texans, so all four games around the Christmas holiday will feature matchups of teams that were in the playoffs last season.
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The Chiefs’ first visit to the Bills’ new stadium will reportedly close out the NFL’s Thanksgiving slate of games.
Per NFL reporter Jordan Schultz, the Chiefs will be at the new Highmark Stadium on Thursday night in Week 12. The primetime game will be televised by NBC.
The two teams have met at least once per season since the start of the 2020 season. The Bills are 5-1 in the regular season matchups, but the Chiefs are 4-0 in their playoff confrontations.
With the game set for late November, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s recovery from a torn ACL should no longer be an issue. There will undoubtedly be other injury issues that impact who will be on hand for the latest chapter in the rivalry headed by Mahomes and Bills quarterback Josh Allen, but both teams will hope they aren’t significant enough to rob the game of its usual luster.
The Bills have made a few roster moves on Tuesday.
Buffalo announced the club has signed tight end Shane Zylstra along with a pair of 2026 draft picks: fourth-round receiver Skyler Bell and fourth-round linebacker Kaleb Elarms-Orr.
Zylstra has appeared in 35 games with six starts in his career, all for the Lions. He’s caught 18 passes for 136 yards with four touchdowns.
As a corresponding move to add Zylstra, the Bills released kicker Maddux Trujillo, who had joined the club in January on a futures deal.
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 Bills are starting the week by adding a veteran defender.
Buffalo announced on Monday that the club has signed outside linebacker Mike Danna to a one-year deal.
Danna, 28, was released by the Chiefs in February after spending his first six seasons with the franchise. In 2025, Danna appeared in 15 games with 14 starts, recording 25 total tackles, three tackles for loss, four QB hits, a sack, and an interception.
A fifth-round pick in the 2020 draft, Danna has appeared in 87 games with 49 starts, recording 21.5 sacks, 25 tackles for loss, and 51 QB hits.
He is a two-time Super Bowl champion, having won back-to-back rings with Kansas City in 2022 and 2023.
The Bills signed second-round cornerback Davison Igbinosun on Friday, the team announced.
He is the seventh of 10 draft picks to sign.
Only fourth-round offensive tackle Jude Bowry, fourth-round wide receiver Skyler Bell and fourth-round Kaleb Elarms-Orr remain unsigned.
The Bills traded up to take Igbinosun with the 62nd overall pick.
Igbinosun spent his freshman season starting at Ole Miss before transferring to Ohio State, where he played three seasons. In his four-year college career, Igbinosun totaled 194 tackles, four interceptions and 27 pass breakups.
But he had 27 penalties in his final two college seasons.
The Bills drafted one wide receiver last month and they added three more rookies at the position on Friday.
They announced that they have signed Gabriel Benyard, Ja’Mori McClain, and Max Tomczak as undrafted free agents.
Benyard led Kennesaw State with 949 receiving yards and nine receiving touchdowns last season. Maclin, who is the cousin of former NFL wideout Jeremy Maclin, had 13 catches at Kentucky last year and had a 1,000-yard season at North Texas in 2023. Tomczak holds Youngstown State records for career catches and receiving yards.
The Bills also signed Wisconsin fullback Jackson Acker, Clemson linebacker Cade Denhoff, Missouri State cornerback Jordan Dunbar, Duke guard Bruno Fina, Tennessee Tech linebacker Theron Gaines, Virginia Tech defensive end Kody Huisman, Pitt running back Desmond Reid, Arkansas cornerback Kani Walker, and Syracuse guard Da’Metrius Weatherspoon.
The Bills signed six of their 10 draft picks on Thursday ahead of their rookie minicamp.
The list includes second-round edge rusher TJ Parker from Clemson. Parker was the team’s top selection after General Manager Brandon Beane traded back three times into the top of the second.
Parker, who had 41.5 tackles for loss and 21.5 sacks in 39 games, was the 35th overall pick.
The Bills also signed fifth-round safety Jalon Kilgore, fifth-round defensive tackle Zane Durant, seventh-round cornerback Toriano Pride Jr., seventh-round punter Tommy Doman Jr. and seventh-round offensive lineman Ar’maj Reed-Adams.
Second-round cornerback Davison Igbinosun, fourth-round Jude Bowry, fourth-round wide receiver Skyler Bell and fourth-round linebacker Kaleb Elarms-Orr remain unsigned.
The Bills spent some time with a potential addition to their defensive line recently.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that free agent defensive end Mike Danna visited the team. It’s the first reported visit for Danna since the Chiefs released him in February.
Danna was a 2020 fifth-round pick by Kansas City and he appeared in 87 regular season games for the team over that time. Danna had 194 tackles, 21.5 sacks, six forced fumbles and an interception in that action.
Danna also played 16 postseason games for the Chiefs, including four Super Bowls. He had 27 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble while winning a pair of Super Bowl rings.
Recently, former NFL defensive end and former ESPN and Fox Sports on-air personality Marcellus Wiley was accused of sexual assault by four individuals. The claims, which were addressed in an item on Awful Announcing, were first reported by Rolling Stone on April 29.
On Tuesday morning, Wiley responded publicly to the new accusations on his YouTube show.
“Pick a date, pick the encounter, pick the allegation,” Wiley said. “For every one of them, I either saw, communicated — through email, text, phone — was invited by these individuals after these dates to engage, to be intimate, or all the above. After the dates that are in question, OK? So this matters. Why does it matter? . . . Because it directly contradicts the narrative that they’re trying to present publicly.”
He posed a simple question to the accusers. “Why did you continue to see or maintain friendly communication at minimum that can be verified — will be verified — with someone that you’re accusing after the alleged incidents?”
Wiley compared his situation to the Stefon Diggs criminal trial, which at the time had not yet ended. (On Tuesday, Diggs was acquitted of strangulation and assault charges.)
Unlike Diggs, Wiley faces accusations from multiple persons. Unlike Diggs, Wiley has not faced criminal charges.
Wiley has vowed to defend his name, especially since his son carries that same name.
“To you, it’s about money,” Wiley said. “To me, it’s about my son’s name that he will one day Google and think that this is about him, but he’s gonna know it’s about his dad. And how dare you stain the brain of my child and his hero.”
Wiley did not address any of the details in the allegations. And that’s smart. Anything he says can be used against him in court by the persons who have made the accusations.
On Tuesday night, Wiley posted on Twitter court documents showing that three prior allegations have been dismissed.
Columbia University also has been named in the new lawsuit, which seeks certification of a class action against Wiley and Columbia. Via Rolling Stone, a hearing regarding potential certification of a class action will be held on May 12.
Wiley will have the right to fully and aggressively defend himself against the allegations. And, again, he has faced no criminal charges at any time in connection with any of the claims.
Where the litigation goes from here remains to be seen. Wiley’s initial response makes it clear that he intends to aggressively fight all of the allegations.
Wiley spent 10 years in the NFL, playing for the Bills, Chargers, Cowboys, and Jaguars. He worked for ESPN through 2018, and he then worked at Fox Sports until 2022.
