We finally have a schedule for the New England Patriots' 2025 season, as the NFL announced its full slate of games Wednesday night.

The Patriots announced their schedule for the 2025 season on Wednesday, with the team opening the year on Sept. 7 against the Raiders.

Here are six takeaways from the Patriots' 2025 NFL schedule:

The 2024 season was the first since 2000 that Bill Belichick wasn't the New England Patriots head coach and 2024 No. 3 pick Drake Maye was starting his NFL career. After a second consecutive 4-13 season and another dismissal at head coach, the Patriots will have a significantly different look and some increased hope for 2025 and beyond.

The 2025 NFL regular-season schedule has been released, and per NFL Research, the New England Patriots have the third-easiest schedule with opponents holding a .429 win percentage from 2024. Here’s what stands out about this year’s schedule. Except for a Week 17 game against the Jets, the Patriots don’t get any breaks after their Week 14 bye.

The Patriots used the opportunity of the schedule release to start a competition between four players in the egg drop challenge.

We are in the thick of the NFL offseason and have already crossed some significant mile markers en route to Week 1. Free agency and the NFL Draft are behind us, and the road ahead also got much clearer last week with the league rolling out the entire 2025 regular season schedule.

USA TODAY Sports is predicting the Patriots' record as the 2025 NFL schedule release approaches. The question about those upgrades is whether they will merely serve to make New England more ...

FOXBORO — The Patriots entered the offseason with two bona fide bankable stars in quarterback Drake Maye and cornerback Christian Gonzalez. Tuesday, in the Patriots’ first practice open to the media of the spring, one of those players made life more difficult for the other at organized team activities.