What do we think, folks?
It appears that we now know where the Minnesota Vikings will be opening their 2025 NFL season. . .and, if the reports are true, they’ll be doing so in prime time.
NFL SCHEDULE NEWS
The Chicago #Bears will host the Minnesota #Vikings on Monday Night Football – Week 1, per sources pic.twitter.com/WjcbdgyzPa
— Ozzy (@OzzyNFL) May 14, 2025
OzzyNFL on X, an account which has a pretty good handle on everything that’s happening with the schedule, is reporting that the Vikings will open the 2025 season on Monday Night Football against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.
If this is true, it will feature a battle between two quarterbacks who were drafted in the top ten in the 2024 NFL Draft in Caleb Williams and J.J. McCarthy. It will also be the head coaching debut of Ben Johnson, who had served as the offensive coordinator in Detroit prior to taking the Bears’ head coaching job this offseason.
This also means there’s no chance of the Vikings having to play a late-season game in Chicago, which is good because the turf at Soldier Field is basically a cow pasture by Thanksgiving, if not earlier.
With the Vikings reportedly opening things up on the road and then heading to Europe for Weeks 4 and 5, I would expect their games in Weeks 2 and 3 to both be at U.S. Bank Stadium, but we’ll see how things shake out.
We’re tracking everything about the Vikings’ schedule on our Schedule Tracker, leading up to the official release at 7:00 PM Central time this evening.
