Despite playing a game in Dublin, Ireland, against the Minnesota Vikings, the Pittsburgh Steelers will have one of the AFC’s lightest conference schedules. While they will travel the most out of any AFC North team, it is still just the ninth-fewest in the NFL.
All in all, the Steelers will travel 15,062 miles this season. Of that mileage, over a fifth is from Pittsburgh to Dublin, which is over 3000 miles away. The other heavy hitter for the Steelers is their trip to Los Angeles, over 2400 miles away.
However, outside of their divisional games, the Steelers stay local, with trips to Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Foxborough on the schedule.
The Steelers are predicted to have an easier schedule than 2024 as well.
According to an analysis done by Warren Sharp, the Steelers will have the ninth-hardest schedule in the league, but that is much easier than last year’s, where they were projected to have the toughest schedule in the NFL.
Sharp’s forecasts use Vegas’ projected win totals and other advanced metrics to try and predict the hardest schedules in the NFL. Last year, the Steelers were far and away the toughest schedule, and that held, with a brutal run to end the season.
The schedule will include nine home games and eight away games, though one of those home games is against the Vikings in Ireland. So, the full slate looks like this:
Home opponents: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Seattle, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Green Bay, Miami, Buffalo
Away opponents: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York Jets, New England, Los Angeles Chargers, Chicago, Detroit
The NFL schedule will be announced on May 14. According to these projections, Pittsburgh will not have the hardest schedule in the AFC North, with the Cleveland Browns earning that title and having the second-hardest schedule in the entire NFL.