- The Pack’s visit to Pittsburgh is clearly the marquee game on a light Week 8 slate.
- Six teams will be on their bye this weekend.
- Another potentially fun matchup? Cowboys at Broncos, pitting Dallas’ explosive offense against Denver’s elite D.
The NFL’s upcoming slate of Week 8 games is a light one. Six teams (Cardinals, Lions, Jaguars, Raiders, Rams, Seahawks) will be on bye, that mass absence dovetailing at a point of the season when the league is pausing its International Series and moving away from its recent Monday night doubleheaders.
None of that is to say it won’t be an eventful weekend.
Thursday night kicks off with a pair of 2024 playoff teams struggling to get back to the postseason, the Minnesota Vikings visiting the Los Angeles Chargers at a time when both teams are working through significant injury setbacks.
What projects as a fairly ho-hum Sunday afternoon slate will feature the Denver Broncos hosting another NFC East team, the Dallas Cowboys, in what’s hopefully as entertaining a contest as last Sunday’s Broncos-Giants affair.
But Week 8’s pièce de resistance involves Pittsburgh Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers facing his original team, the Green Bay Packers − they famously chose the eventual four-time MVP late in Round 1 of the 2005 draft − for the first time Sunday night at Acrisure Stadium. No revenge required.
Does Rodgers win? What about everyone else? USA TODAY’s consortium of NFL experts weighs in:
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NFL Week 8 picks, predictions and odds
- Minnesota Vikings at Los Angeles Chargers
- Miami Dolphins at Atlanta Falcons
- Chicago Bears at Baltimore Ravens
- Cleveland Browns at New England Patriots
- New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles
- San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans
- Buffalo Bills at Carolina Panthers
- New York Jets at Cincinnati Bengals
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints
- Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts
- Dallas Cowboys at Denver Broncos
- Green Bay Packers at Pittsburgh Steelers
- Washington Commanders at Kansas City Chiefs