The NFL announced a number of scheduling changes on Monday, including a third delay for Ravens-Steelers and a few moves unrelated to COVID-19.
The Ravens-Steelers game originally scheduled for Thanksgiving night, rescheduled for Sunday afternoon, and then rescheduled again for Tuesday night has been rescheduled for Wednesday at 3:30 PM ET. As with the previous postponements, the game is slated to remain on NBC. If played, it will be the first Wednesday NFL game since the 2012 season opener.
Due to the scheduling change, the Ravens’ subsequent game against the Cowboys — originally scheduled for Thursday and then tentatively pushed back to next Monday afternoon — has been pushed back to next Tuesday night. It is set to remain on FOX and NFL Network.
The Steelers’ scheduled Sunday game against Washington has been pushed back to next Monday at 5:00 PM ET, with the network designation as yet unknown. [Related: NFL TV schedule.]
In other NFL scheduling news, the league has selected 49ers-Cardinals in Week 16 to be the first NFL game to air exclusively on Amazon Prime. It is scheduled for 4:30 PM ET December 26, sandwiched between Buccaneers-Lions and Dolphins-Raiders on NFL Network.
Meanwhile, ESPN announced Monday that it plans to simulcast its annual Wild Card game across two additional networks this season, ESPN2 and Freeform (nee ABC Family). ABC is set to simulcast the game for a sixth-straight year.
The NFL also made a more conventional scheduling change Monday, announcing that the 1 PM ET Packers-Lions game on December 13 will be flexed to 4:25 on FOX. It would be one of four late games on FOX — and six total — that day.
