Takeaways from the Steelers 2026 regular-season schedule release

On Thursday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced their full regular-season schedule for the upcoming season. Now that we've had some time to go over the whole thing at length, here are our big takeaways.

Of course it's the Ravens

The NFL loves to manufacture drama between the Steelers and Ravens. Once again, the AFC North rivals will square off in the final game of the season and Pittsburgh will play Baltimore twice in the final five weeks.

No holiday games?

There was a rumor that the Steelers would take on the Carolina Panthers on Christmas. When the official schedule came out, the game is listed as a Week 16 game but date and time to be determined so you might be celebrating Christmas with the Steelers after all.

4 primetime games

Pittsburgh is one of those teams that travels well and have fans everywhere so it makes perfect sense to have plenty of prime-time games. We predicted five prime-time games but we assume they lost one for the sake of the Paris roadtrip.

Week One at home?

It's a rare occurrence for the Steelers to get a home game in Week One but this season, Pittsburgh will welcome the new-look Atlanta Falcons to town. Going back to 2007, this will be only the seventh time the Steelers have been at home in Week One.

Making history again

Last season the Steelers made NFL history when they played the Minnesota Vikings in the first regular-season game in Ireland. This season, the team will make history again when they take on the in the first regular-season game played in France.