Detroit Lions 2026 Travel Schedule

Detroit Lions travel miles 2026 by week

Home: Ford Field, Detroit. Miles are round trips from home. Body clock is the kickoff in Lions home time.

Miles (round trip):

19,100

Short weeks (under 7 days rest):

3

Early kickoffs (before 11 a.m. body clock):

1

Longest road trip (games):

2

Longest home gap (days):

28

Time zones crossed:

12

International games:

1

Detroit Lions short weeks 2026

• Week 2, at Buffalo Bills: 4 days after the previous game, 440 miles round trip.
• Week 12, vs Chicago Bears: 4 days after the previous game.
• Week 17, at Chicago Bears: 6 days after the previous game, 480 miles round trip.

How MockSlate counts travel miles

Every game is a round trip from Ford Field to the game venue, as the crow flies, rounded to ten miles. A home game counts zero; a neutral or international site counts from home even when the Lions are the designated home team. Rest days are the days since the previous game, a short week is fewer than seven, and the body clock is the kickoff in Lions home time. Back-to-back road games are flagged rather than modeled as one trip. All 32 teams ranked →

Detroit Lions rest advantage 2026 by week

Since 2002, home teams win 56% of games with even rest. With a rest edge of three days or more that rises to 58%. On the short side of three days or more it drops to 53%.

Edge is the Lions’ rest days minus the opponent’s. Green is an edge, red a deficit, white even. Week 1 has no edge. Thursday games usually show 0: both teams are on a short week, so the edge cancels out.

Lions’ season rest edge is 0, 16th in the league, through the scheduled weeks.

Detroit Lions games off a bye 2026

• Week 7, vs Green Bay Packers: 14 days of rest against the opponent’s 7, an edge of +7.

NFL win rate by rest advantage since 2002

Every regular-season game from 2002 to 2025 after Week 1, bucketed by the home team’s rest edge over the visitor. The win rate is the home team’s, so the Even row is the plain home-field baseline to read the others against.

5,838 games bucketed: 6,223 in the file minus 383 Week 1 games and 2 later games where a team had no earlier game that season. Ties count as half a win.

Detroit Lions hardest stretch of the 2026 schedule

The Lions’ hardest three-game stretch is Weeks 16 to 18: NYG, @CHI, @GB, at an average model win chance of 56.3%, 31st hardest three-game run in the league. Difficulty is 100 minus each game’s win chance, so home field and rest are already counted.

These are MockSlate model numbers, not sportsbook lines. All 32 teams ranked by hardest stretch →

Detroit Lions primetime games 2026 and since 2002

The Lions have 4 primetime games in 2026, tied for 11th most in the league, and have averaged 1.7 per season since 2002. That is down from 6 in 2025. Their primetime record since 2002 is 20-20 (50.0%). Week 18 has no slots yet.

Windows: Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night, and other night windows (the opener, holiday nights, Saturday night). Lines are MockSlate model numbers from the current ratings snapshot, not sportsbook lines. All 32 teams by primetime games →