{"id":105899,"date":"2026-01-05T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:01:10","slug":"all-17-of-miamis-opponents-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105899\/","title":{"rendered":"All 17 of Miami&#8217;s opponents next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 4, 2026, 7:14 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>&#8216; slate of opponents for the 2026 season is set. The NFL&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dolphinswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/dolphins\/2025\/05\/20\/miami-dolphins-schedule-future-opponents-2026-2027-2028\/83743705007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">schedule rotation already mapped out<\/a> 14 of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dolphins<\/a>&#8216; 17 opponents next season, the other three were determined by the final standings this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">By finishing third place behind the New England Patriots and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the AFC East, the Dolphins lined up matchups with the third place finishers in the AFC North, AFC South, and NFC West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Two of those three matchups were <a href=\"http:\/\/dolphinswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/dolphins\/2025\/12\/29\/dolphins-schedule-2026-opponents\/87941029007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set in stone after Week 17<\/a>. The last became official when the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> beat the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> to move into second in the NFC West. That bumped the San Francisco 49ers down to third and into a 2026 matchup with the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The order, dates, and kickoff times for each matchup won&#8217;t be announced until the schedule release after the 2026 NFL Draft. Here are the 17 games that will be on the Dolphins&#8217; schedule in 2026:<\/p>\n<p>HomeBillsPatriotsJetsChiefsChargersBearsLionsBengalsNeed a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>AwayBillsPatriotsJetsBroncosPackersRaidersVikingsColts49ers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 4, 2026, 7:14 p.m. ET The Miami Dolphins&#8216; slate of opponents for the 2026 season is set.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,123,125,124,10773,10774,11232,298,1757,10367,1260,2577,342,332,442,49,300,34],"class_list":["post-105899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-accessfree","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sstssportsnfldolphins","tag-sstsndolphins","tag-tagafc-south","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagarizona-cardinals","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-taglos-angeles-rams","tag-tagmiami-dolphins","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}