2023 NFL schedule release: Predicting top matchups, including season opener, Thanksgiving games, Black Friday

Forecasting some of the biggest games on the NFL schedule ahead of Thursday's expected release

The NFL's big waves of offseason player movement have come and gone, and now the league is set to officially turn the page to the 2023 season, with expectations of releasing the full regular-season schedule on Thursday, May 11.

In total, the schedule release will account for 272 different matchups. Here, in anticipation of the unveiling, we decided to predict the games that will be featured on some of the NFL's most anticipated calendar dates: