The Wednesday night game expands NFL Thanksgiving week to five stand-alone games before the Sunday slate for the first time in league history.
The NFL has had its claws in the Thanksgiving holiday for a while now, but they’re expanding that footprint as they plan to turn that week into a five-game holiday spectacle. They will now have the league’s first Thanksgiving Eve game streaming on Netflix between the Los Angeles Rams and Green Bay Packers on Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. ET. The game is part of a larger Netflix-NFL partnership that will expand in the 2026 season with a full schedule announcement set for Thursday on ESPN.
The Packers will head to the Rams at SoFi Stadium on Nov. 25 for the first-ever Wednesday night regular season game on Thanksgiving week, expanding that week slate to five games before Sunday. The league has previously played three Thanksgiving games since 2006 but added one on Black Friday in 2023.
The NFL will also have the Melbourne opener between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams on Thursday, Sept. 10 at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The NFL Honors, for individual awards and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees, will air during Super Bowl week on Netflix. It’s cementing itself as one of the major broadcast partners as the league gets more into streaming versus traditional networks.
To read more about the first-ever Thanksgiving eve matchup, here is the full story from Rams Roundtable writer James Brizuela.
The only game confirmed for Thanksgiving Day is the Dallas Cowboys, per usual, hosting the Philadelphia Eagles at 4:30 p.m. on Fox. A two-hour special on ESPN on Thursday at 8 pm ET will unveil the complete 2026 slate.