The Lions lead league in net rest advantage for the 2025 season
The Lions lead league in net rest advantage for the 2025 season
When a team and its players find out their schedule for the season, they look at what order they're playing their opponents, but some go immediately to items such as when their bye week is and maybe dig deeper to find out how much rest advantage they may have over other teams.
For the Detroit Lions, fate worked out in their favor this season as they led the league this season in net rest advantage, per Sharp Football Analysis, which factors in how many extra days of rest a team has heading into their next opponent and week.
The Lions will have a net advantage of 13 days of rest compared to their opponents this season and will play eight games in which they'll have extra rest versus just one game in which they'll have a rest disadvantage (Week 4 vs. Browns, Lions coming off Monday game Week 3 against the Ravens).
The Lions will play five games against teams coming off a Monday game:
Week 2 vs. Bears
Week 5 at Bengals
Week 6 at Chiefs
Week 11 at Eagles
Week 16 vs. Steelers
In addition, the Lions play three games in which they're either coming off their bye (Week 9 vs. Vikings) or coming off a mini-bye after playing a Thursday game the week prior (Week 15 at Rams, Week 18 at Bears).
The Lions have a gauntlet of a schedule, but having even just a little extra rest before some of these games could make a world of difference.
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