The NFL announced the 2025 season calendar On May 14, with 71 first -rate, international or celebrations (not counting the three TBD games) throughout the regular season.
THE Titans du Tennessee will not play In one of these games for the moment.
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N ° 1 PUITCTION CAM CAM Goald will have to wait for his second season as a pro to make his debut at the NFL during prime time, except one Titans The game is bent later in the season. It is the first global choice n ° 1 since Cam Newton in 2011 not to have the chance to appear in prime time as a recruit, although the planning rules have changed.
The flexible planning of the NFL always leaves the opportunity to change the calendar, with extended flexibility for the Thursday and Monday evening football matches added in the last two seasons. Tennessee, New Orleans and Cleveland were the only teams that have been excluded from proud hours in the exit of the League calendar.
“We have in a way that adage that you play in prime time”, vice-president of radio planning and Mike North planning said to cbssports.com May 15 on the Titans. “You do not make your way in prime time.”
In 2023, the NFL prevented the practice of giving each team a game during great listening or autonomous hours in the calendar. However, the choices in total n ° 1 in 2023 (Bryce Young, Caroline) and 2024 (Caleb Williams, Chicago) had several night games as recruits.
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But how rare is it for a team with a global choice n ° 1 at QB to be excluded from prime hours? Since 1998, it is rare but not unknown throughout the League. Over the past decade, this has not happened.
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NFL n ° 1 Pick Pick Quarterbacks and matches during prime time as recruits
1998: Peyton Manning, Indianapolis
Games at great listening hours: 1
At this point, the NFL calendar was announced several days before the project. This would be the case for the next 20 years approximately. Schedule manufacturers could safely assume that Manning or Ryan Leaf would be in a colt uniform.
1999: Tim Couch, Cleveland
Games at great listening hours: 1
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Cleveland’s return to NFL obtained the ESPN Sunday Night football treatment.
2001: Michael Vick, Atlanta
Games at great listening hours: 0
Atlanta had experienced difficulties during the previous seasons without the 1998 Super Bowl race, and Vick only started two games in the era of first round by watching and learning for a season.
2002: David Carr, Houston
Games at great listening hours: 1
Like Cleveland in 1999, Houston returned to the NFL stage with a home match of week 1 on Sunday evening football in ESPN.
2003: Carson Palmer, Cincinnati
Games at great listening hours: 0
The Bengals had missed a terrible section of a decade which would eventually end in the Palmer era. But not in 2003, when Palmer spent the whole season.
2004: Eli Manning, NY Giant
Games at great listening hours: 1
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The 2004 NFL calendar was released in front of the Manning-Philip rivers trade by the Giants and Chargers occurred on the day of the draft. However, the charges had no programmed privilege match, and the Giants had only one in the last week of the season.
2005: Alex Smith, San Francisco
Games at great listening hours: 1
The 49ers’ first -time match came to SNF in Mexico at the start of the season. The first start of Smith’s NFL would only come the following week.
2007: Jamarcus Russell, Oakland Looters
Games at great listening hours: 0
Gannon Post-Riches Raiders have suffered and the franchise is still trying to come back in importance today only in a more beautiful stadium. It should be noted in 2007: the coach of the Raiders Lane Kiffin.
2009: Matthew Stafford, Detroit
Games at great listening hours: 0 (without counting Thanksgiving)
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There is not much to say about the lions of the 2000s. A game in Thanksgiving was often too much exhibition on national television.
2010: Sam Bradford, St. Louis Rams
Games at great listening hours: 1 (match of the week 17 fled to Sunday evening football)
Remember the NFC West 2010? The Rams and the Seahawks fought for the title of division of week 17 with records of sub500. It was good enough for a flexion in the SNF.
2011: Cam Newton, Caroline
Games at great listening hours: 0
Charlotte is not a large NFL market as it is, and the Panthers were 2-14 in 2010. A recall: the NFL calendar was still being published before the point.
2012: Andrew Luck, Indianapolis
Games at great listening hours: 1
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The calendar creators were burned by Peyton Manning’s injury in 2011 and did not take too much chance with the prospect of a new QB recruit. From this moment, each NFL team experienced a match during prime time or autonomous from 2012 to 2022 when the League widened the football calendar on Thursday evening.
2015: Jameis Winston, Tampa Bay
Games at great listening hours: 1
At this point, the Thursday evening football package housed more privileged filling matches than marquee matches. Many games at great listening hours for the next choices n ° 1 came from the TNF Pré-Amazon package.
2016: Jared Goff, Rams
Games at great listening hours: 2 (not counting the game in London)
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The 2016 RAMs were covered in detail on the Amazon Prime Video series “All Or Nothing”, and Jeff Faisher’s last season as NFL head coach had two games during great listening hours, including the opener. And the Rams exchanged in n ° 1 in total after spending 7-9 in 2015.
2018: Baker Mayfield, Cleveland
Games at great listening hours: 2
Mayfield Brown Beginning was on TNF against the Jets in September 2018, orchestrating a return victory.
2019: Kyler Murray, Arizona
Games at great listening hours: 1
Murray’s recruit season for cardinals included a Lone TNF game. Note: It was the last year that the NFL published the regular season calendar before the draft.
2020: Joe Burrow, cincinnati
Games at great listening hours: 2
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The 2019 Burrow season in LSU was so good that the Bengals had two first -rate games during its recruited season despite a terrible 2019 record.
2021: Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville
Games at great listening hours: 1 (without play in London)
Load another at the TNF package. The Jaguars led by Urban Meyer made the headlines that victories.
2023: Bryce Young, Carolina
Games at great listening hours: 2
With hindsight, it’s difficult. Carolina won seven games in 2022, exchanged against Bryce Young and had two night games in a season.
2024: Caleb Williams, Chicago
Games at great listening hours: 3 (without including games in London, on Thanksgiving)
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Chicago is a large market and the Bears are a solid brand. The exhibition at the prospecting hours of Williams only increased in 2025 despite an uneven recruit season.
2025: Cam Ward, Tennessee
Games at great listening hours: 0
Ward is the first overall choice n ° 1 since Cam Newton in 2011 to be excluded from prime hours. If Ward plays as Newton did during his recruit season, the titans fans would be delighted. (And the Titans would be on prospecting hours several times in 2026.)
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Titans, Cam Ward was excluded from matches during prime time in 2025 season: Rare for n ° 1 Pick QB
