2026 NFL Bye Weeks: Every Team's Schedule
All 32 teams' 2026 bye weeks, grouped by week, sourced from the same committed schedule gamedai's live matchup and start/sit pages use.
- 2026 NFL bye weeks run from week 5 through week 14, with no bye in week 12, 15, 16, 17, or 18.
- Week 11 carries the most byes (six teams); weeks 5 and 9 carry the fewest (two teams each).
- Data as of August 22, 2026, from the league's own released schedule -- see the full table and sources below.
2026 NFL bye weeks by week
Data as of August 22, 2026. A team's bye is the one week on its released 2026 schedule with no game.
- Week 5: Carolina, Kansas City
- Week 6: Cincinnati, Detroit, Miami, Minnesota
- Week 7: Buffalo, Jacksonville, Los Angeles (AFC), Washington
- Week 8: Houston, New Orleans, New York (NFC), San Francisco
- Week 9: Pittsburgh, Tennessee
- Week 10: Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay
- Week 11: Atlanta, Cleveland, Green Bay, Los Angeles (NFC), New England, Seattle
- Week 13: Baltimore, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, New York (AFC)
- Week 14: Arizona, Dallas
Planning your fantasy roster around bye weeks
Six teams share a bye in week 11, the single most crowded bye week in the 2026 schedule. A roster leaning on New England, Seattle, Green Bay, Atlanta, Cleveland, or the NFC Los Angeles team at more than one starting spot is worth checking against that week specifically.
Weeks 5 and 9 have only two teams on bye each, so those weeks are the lightest lineup-planning weeks of the bye-week stretch. The fixture lookups on the waiver-wire and start/sit pages use the same underlying schedule as the table above, so a check there will match.
Sources
Browse every published guide on the gamedai blog.