The Commanders open with back-to-back NFC East road games and then fly to London. Washington is the designated home team against Indianapolis at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in Week 4, its first London appearance since 2017.
Dan Quinn’s third season comes after an injury-wrecked 5-12 finish, and the schedule front-loads the division: both Philadelphia games land inside the first eight weeks.
Games That Will Define the Commanders’ Season
| Wk 4 vs Colts | London, 9:30 a.m. ET on NFL Network, with Washington as the designated home team. It is the club’s first London game since facing Cincinnati there in 2017. |
| Wk 1 & 8 vs Eagles | Philadelphia in the opener and again on Sunday night in Week 8. Washington has only twice before played the Eagles twice inside the first eight weeks, in 2017 and 2023. |
| Wk 10-11 | A Thursday night at the Giants and then Cincinnati on Monday night, back-to-back prime-time games in consecutive weeks for the second straight season. |
| Wk 18 vs Cowboys | Dallas at Northwest Stadium to close, the second meeting of the year after the Week 2 trip to Arlington. |
How the Schedule Sets Up
Opening at Philadelphia and Dallas in back-to-back weeks is about as hard a start as the NFC East offers. Seattle then visits before the London trip, and the bye does not arrive until Week 7, after a Monday night in San Francisco.
The stretch out of the bye is the season: Philadelphia on Sunday night, the Rams, a Thursday at the Giants, Cincinnati on Monday. December is softer on paper, with Arizona, Tennessee, Houston and Atlanta before three undated games to close. For the other side of both Eagles games, see our Philadelphia Eagles schedule page. Full league schedules and flexible-scheduling rules are published by the NFL.
The Bottom Line
Two road division games to open, London in Week 4, a late Week 7 bye and both Eagles matchups done by the start of November. Washington is coming off 5-12 with two new coordinators, and this schedule tells it very quickly whether the injuries were the whole story. Bookmark this page; results and Week 16, 17 and 18 details are updated throughout the season.