The Kansas City Chiefs officially know what lies ahead for their 2025 campaign after the NFL released its full regular season schedule on Wednesday, May 14. As the defending AFC champions, the Chiefs will face high expectations throughout the season and may even face headwinds in their preseason exhibition matchups this summer.

The seven prime-time games the Chiefs are in ties an NFL record with the 2023 Buffalo Bills, who ended up being flexed into a prime-time slot in Week 18 to previously set the record. The NFL scheduled the seven prime-time games for the Chiefs due to their loaded schedule of opponents.

The NFL is using the Chiefs as its ultimate carrot once more, dangling them on the prime-time and streaming market in return for millions. You can almost picture it, a league executive sliding a sheet of paper across the table and a network producer unfolding it to read two scribbled words: “Patrick Mahomes.”