Schedule Analysis
NFL Bye-Week Planner 2026
Every team's bye week for the 2026 season — browse by week to see who's idle, or by team to look up any roster spot on your draft board.
All 32 NFL teams take one bye between Week 5 and Week 14 in 2026. Week 11 is the heaviest, with 6 teams idle: Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams, New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. No team is on bye in Week 12.
2026 NFL schedule
Weeks not shown have no teams on bye.
How to use this tool
By Week. The primary view — grouped by bye week so you can see at a glance which teams are idle in any given week. Useful in-season when you need to know before a waiver deadline which players to replace, and at draft time when you want to see how byes cluster (multiple key players on bye the same week is a lineup problem worth knowing about ahead of time).
By Team. A quick lookup for draft prep — sort by team to scan alphabetically, or sort by bye week to see the full league staggered in chronological order. Useful for comparing two players at the same position: if both have early byes, that's a manageable roster situation; if your entire starting lineup lands in the same week, that's a planning risk.
What this is and isn't. Bye weeks are a fact from the published schedule — there is no estimation here, no rating, and no advice about whom to start or drop. This tool surfaces the schedule data; decisions about how to manage bye weeks are yours.
Just want the table? The 2026 NFL Bye Week Schedule is the same data as a flat, citable reference — every week, every team, nothing to operate. Use that one to look something up or to link to; use this one to plan a roster around the byes.
Pair it with Strength of Schedule. Bye week placement matters more when a team has a tough or easy stretch around it. The Fantasy Strength of Schedule tool shows which teams face the softest defenses in the fantasy-playoff window (Weeks 15–17) — a natural complement to bye-week planning at the draft.
Common questions
- How many NFL teams are on bye each week in 2026?
- Between 2 and 6. The 2026 byes run from Week 5 to Week 14, with the most teams idle in Week 11 (6 teams) and the fewest in Weeks 5, 9, 14 (2 each).
- What is a bye week in the NFL?
- A bye is the one week in the regular season a team does not play. The league schedules them so every team gets a rest week, which means a player on a bye scores zero fantasy points that week. In 2026 all 32 teams take exactly one bye, spread across Weeks 5-14.
- Are any NFL teams on bye in Week 12 of 2026?
- No. Week 12 of the 2026 season carries no byes at all — every team plays. That is a feature of the published schedule, not missing data.
- Where can I see the full 2026 bye week schedule as a plain table?
- The 2026 NFL Bye Week Schedule page at rankfantasy.com/nfl-bye-weeks lists every week and every team as a flat reference table, with no tool to operate. This page is the planning view; that one is the lookup.
Informational only — not betting, DFS, or lineup advice. Schedule is shown as loaded from the 2026 NFL season data; bye weeks are derived from game assignments and reflect the published schedule at the time of last data load. Data via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the NFL or any team.