No matter how you slice it, the Detroit Lions’ 2025 schedule looks pretty darn difficult. And while perception of schedule rarely meets reality—as Ty Schalter pointed out in last week’s Pride of Detroit Direct Newsletter—the fact remains that Detroit has a lot of teams who are perceived as very talented on their slate this fall.
There are several ways to measure NFL strength of schedule, and each metric points to Detroit having one of the toughest roads in the 2025 regular season.
By last year’s record
If you add up the 2024 record of all of the Lions’ 17 opponents for this upcoming season, it comes out to an overall winning percentage of .