The NFL released its 2025 schedule this week and with a dozen Heisman winners on a combined 10 teams, there is no shortage of Heisman vs. Heisman matchups.
Heisman fraternity members will be pit against each other 22 times and there are about two dozen primetime games (Thursdays, Fridays and Mondays) featuring at least one of our trophy recipients.
The new season will kickoff on Thursday, Sept. 4, as Dallas travels to reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia, making 2020 winner DeVonta Smith the first Heisman winner to see action.
There are a whopping 13 Monday Night Football games featuring Heisman winners, including in each of the season’s first 10 weeks. The lone Heisman matchup comes in week six when Jayden Daniels’ Washington Commanders host Caleb Williams’ Chicago Bears.
There are 11 Thursday or Friday games scheduled that will feature a Heisman winner, including the aforementioned season opener. Three of those are Heisman matchups, including Cincinnati at Baltimore on Thanksgiving night in Week 13, Chicago at Philadelphia a day later and the Eagles at Washington on a Friday night in Week 16.
There are also a handful of flex games in Week 17 and a full slate in Week 18 that could be shuffled around, creating more primetime games.
Heisman-winning rookie and new Jacksonville Jaguar Travis Hunter will debut in Week 1 against 2021 Heisman winner [Bryce Young](http://Bryce Young)’s Carolina Panther squad, one of three Heisman matchups he’ll have. Hunter’s Jaguars face Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati team in Week 2 and Kyler Murray’s Arizona team in Week 12.
Smith has the most scheduled Heisman matchup games with six on the docket, including two vs. Jameis Winston and the New York Giants and two against Daniels’ Washington squad.
Williams will face five different teams with Heisman winners, including Daniels in Week 6, at Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry in Week 8, at Burrow’s Bengals in Week 9, against Winston’s Giants in Week 10 and at Smith’s Eagles in Week 13.
Below is the full Heisman vs. Heisman schedule plus primetime games with Heisman winners.
Week 1
New York Giants at Washington
Carolina at Jacksonville
Philadelphia on Thursday Night Football
Chicago on Monday Night Football
Week 2
Jacksonville at Cincinnati
Carolina at Arizona
Tampa Bay on Monday Night Football
Washington on Thursday Night Football
Week 3
Baltimore on Monday Night Football
Week 4
Philadelphia at Tampa Bay
Cincinnati on Monday Night Football
Week 5
Jacksonville on Monday Night Football
Week 6
Philadelphia at New York Giants (Thursday Night Football)
Chicago at Washington (Monday Night Football)
Week 7
Tampa Bay on Monday Night Football
Cincinnati on Thursday Night Football
Week 8
New York Giants at Philadelphia
Chicago at Baltimore
Washington on Monday Night Football
Week 9
Chicago at Cincinnati
Baltimore on Thursday Night Football
Arizona on Monday Night Football
Week 10
New York Giants at Chicago
Philadelphia on Monday Night Football
Week 11
No Heisman matchups, or on Monday Night Football
Week 12
Jacksonville at Arizona
Carolina on Monday Night Football
Week 13
Cincinnati at Baltimore (Thursday Night Football)
Chicago at Philadelphia (Friday Night Football)
Arizona at Tampa Bay
New York Giants on Monday Night Football
Week 14
Philadelphia on Monday Night Football
Week 15
Washington at New York Giants
Baltimore at Cincinnati
Tampa Bay on Thursday Night Football
Week 16
Philadelphia at Washington (Friday Night Football)
Chicago on Friday Night Football
Tampa Bay at Carolina
Week 17
Arizona at Cincinnati
Washington on Friday Night Football
Week 18
Washington at Philadelphia
Carolina at Tampa Bay