The 2026 NFL preseason wraps up with Week 3, running Thursday, August 27 through Saturday, August 29 — the last audition before every team cuts from 90 players to 53 by 6 PM ET on Sunday, August 30. Because the regular season opens on a Wednesday this year (September 9), the finale and the cutdown … Read more
Week 2 of the 2026 NFL preseason runs Thursday, August 20 through Sunday, August 23, and it’s the week that matters most for anyone who wants to see actual starters. With Week 1 done and roster cuts looming on August 30, coaches typically give their first units their heaviest snaps of the summer here — … Read more
College football is back — and as usual, it sneaks in a week early. Week 0 of the 2026 season runs Thursday, August 27 through Sunday, August 30, headlined by an international opener in Dublin, Ireland, the first Big Ten and ACC games of the year, and a slate of FCS and HBCU showcases before … Read more
No — NFL preseason stats do not count toward career records, season totals or anything official. The league’s statistics cover the regular season, with postseason numbers tracked as a separate category, and preseason games exist outside both. A quarterback could throw for 400 yards in August and his official career passing total wouldn’t move a … Read more
NFL teams carry up to 90 players through training camp and the preseason, then cut to the regular-season limit of 53 in a single league-wide deadline — Sunday, August 30 in 2026, earlier than usual because the season opens on a Wednesday. The math is the preseason’s brutal engine: roughly 1,180 players league-wide lose their … Read more
There is no overtime in NFL preseason games — if an August game is tied after four quarters, it simply ends in a tie. The league eliminated preseason overtime in 2021, part of the same restructuring that trimmed the preseason from four games to three, and the logic was airtight: overtime exists to produce a … Read more
NFL preseason games look like regular football but run on different rules where it counts: there is no overtime (ties stand), rosters hold up to 90 players instead of 53, playing time is entirely at the coach’s discretion, and none of the statistics count toward anything official. Each team plays three exhibition games — four … Read more
The Cardinals and Panthers open the 2026 NFL preseason in the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday, August 6 at 8 p.m. ET — 5 p.m. Arizona time — at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, airing nationally on NBC. The matchup is no accident: the game kicks off the enshrinement weekend … Read more
The Cardinals play four preseason games in 2026 — one more than the rest of the league — because they open it all in the Hall of Fame Game against the Panthers in Canton on Thursday, August 6 at 5 p.m. Arizona time on NBC. From there: at the Raiders August 13, home against the … Read more
The Cardinals’ 2026 rookie class arrives at camp Wednesday carrying more immediate expectation than any in recent franchise history, because it’s headlined by the No. 3 overall pick: Jeremiyah Love, the Doak Walker Award winner and unanimous All-American from Notre Dame, drafted to be the engine of Mike LaFleur’s outside-zone offense from day one. He’s … Read more