Rams to open 2026 season in Australia, play seven primetime games

The Rams’ Week 12 game against the Packers will make NFL history as the league’s first Thanksgiving Eve game, airing Wednesday night on Netflix at SoFi Stadium. One week later, the Rams will host the Chiefs on Amazon Prime Video in a rematch that revives memories of the teams’ memorable 54-51 Monday Night Football shootout in 2018 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The schedule also features several high-profile reunions and firsts. Rams coach Sean McVay will face former assistant Mike LaFleur and the Arizona Cardinals in Week 6 before squaring off against Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 8. The matchup against the Chargers will be the Rams’ first time hosting their SoFi Stadium co-tenants in a regular-season game.

The Rams will also travel to face the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium for the first time and return to Philadelphia for another showdown with the Philadelphia Eagles after the teams have met in each of the past two seasons, including the playoffs.

Los Angeles closes the regular season with what could become one of the NFL’s marquee late-season matchups: a Week 18 home game against the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks, a rematch of the 2025 NFC Championship Game.

The Rams will appear on six different television and streaming partners during the season — Amazon, CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC and Netflix — underscoring the franchise’s national profile as SoFi Stadium prepares to host Super Bowl LXI in February 2027.

To unveil the schedule, the Rams leaned into early-2000s nostalgia with a “Napoleon Dynamite”-inspired release video featuring handcrafted props, yearbook-style visuals and references to opponents throughout the 2026 season.