Denver Broncos’ 2022 schedule: Four of first six games in prime time

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos’ 2022 schedule was launched together with the remainder of the NFL slate Thursday.

The 2022 NFL season will kick off on Thursday, Sept. 8 with the Buffalo Payments on the defending champion Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium. ESPN opens its schedule with Monday Evening Soccer on Sept. 12 that includes the Broncos on the Seattle Seahawks, which is able to mark Russell Wilson’s first regular-season begin since Seattle traded him to the Broncos in March.

The ultimate regular-season video games for the 2022 season can be performed Jan. 8, 2023. The playoffs start Jan. 14 and proceed by way of Tremendous Bowl LVII on Feb. 12 in Glendale, Arizona.

This is what’s in retailer for the Broncos:

Schedule

Sept. 12: at Seahawks (MNF)

Sept. 18: vs. Texans

Sept. 25: vs. 49ers (SNF)

Oct. 2: at Raiders

Oct. 6: vs. Colts (TNF)

Oct. 17: at Chargers (MNF)

Oct. 23: vs. Jets

Oct. 30: at Jaguars (in London, Wembley Stadium)

Nov. 6: Bye

Nov. 13: at Titans

Nov. 20: vs. Raiders

Nov. 27: at Panthers

Dec. 4: at Ravens

Dec. 11: vs. Chiefs (SNF)

Dec. 18: vs. Cardinals

Dec. 25: at Rams

Jan. 1: at Chiefs

Jan. 7/8: vs. Chargers

Energy of schedule: fifteenth, .509

Greatest takeaway

They’re baaaack. Not less than within the eyes on the league’s community tv companions. Final season the Broncos didn’t seem on Monday Evening Soccer for the primary time since 1991, didn’t seem on Sunday Evening Soccer and their solely prime-time look was a Thursday night time affair in Cleveland. However Wilson’s arrival within the offseason blockbuster commerce has returned the Broncos to the nationwide stage, a perch they have not loved all that a lot since Peyton Manning retired within the weeks after Tremendous Bowl 50. This 12 months’s Broncos’ schedule, proper from the season opener towards Wilson’s former staff (the Seahawks) options 5 prime-time video games, in addition to a London journey and a Christmas Day matchup towards the defending champs.

Revenge recreation

Wilson may need some private revenge on his thoughts towards his former employers within the opener, however for the group, it is Dec. 11 towards the Chiefs, a Sunday night time affair. Why? C’mon. The Broncos have not defeated the Chiefs since Sept. 17, 2015, and so they’ve misplaced 13 in a row to Kansas Metropolis. In actual fact, few issues sum up the Broncos’ struggles of their post-Manning life just like the yearly dismal performances towards the Chiefs, particularly since Patrick Mahomes made his first profession begin towards the Broncos within the 2017 regular-season finale, a 27-24 Chiefs win. Since then the Chiefs are 9-0 in video games Mahomes has began towards the Broncos, Kansas Metropolis has scored a minimum of 27 factors in seven of these 9 video games, and Mahomes has 12 landing passes to go along with simply 4 interceptions.

What the oddsmakers assume

The oddsmakers have put the Broncos over/underneath win complete at 10. To hit that they will must probably break the shedding streak to the Chiefs, win most, or all, of their residence video games and be ready to interrupt a six-year playoff drought.

Daring prediction

If Wilson stays wholesome, and he is solely missed three video games in his earlier 10 years within the league (all three final season after finger surgical procedure), the Broncos will — lastly — end with a successful document within the AFC West. A tall order given the division is out of the blue one of many league’s hardest with a high-end roster of quarterbacks and pass-rushers simply to start out. Over the past six seasons they’ve completed 1-5 within the division twice, 2-4 thrice and 3-3 as soon as.