After seven long months without football, the 2024-25 NFL season is nearly upon us as the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs will host the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday evening (8:20 p.m. ET on NBC).
With that, we’ve once again compiled a comprehensive list of every uniform, logo and field change that has taken place across the league this offseason, broken down alphabetically by division below.
But before we get to that, we must note a few changes that impact the NFL as a whole, starting with the logo for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, which is inspired by the wrought-iron balconies seen throughout the French Quarter.
Additionally, the league has relaxed its uniform policy to allow teams to wear a third helmet shell beginning with the 2025 season, though the option was offered to teams that underwent a rebrand this offseason.
The rules that current apply to second shells remain in place for the third lids, which means they can only be paired with an alternate, throwback or Color Rush uniform and must be historically accurate if part of a classic design.
That said, some helmets might be covered by Guardian Caps, as the NFL will now allow players to wear the 12-ounce soft shells during regular season games in an effort to reduce head injuries.
The league initially required offensive and defensive linemen, tight ends and linebackers to wear the headgear during preseason practice in 2022, and that list has since expanded to include running backs, wide receivers and defensive backs.
While those used in practice are often a single color, players who have worn them during the preseason have matched the caps to their helmets, including the team logos on the sides and/or stripes down the middle.
Now, let’s take a look at the team-by-team changes across the NFL…
AFC East
Buffalo Bills
After teasing fans with a red throwback helmet in 2022 and a blue fashion helmet in 2023, quarterback Josh Allen wore a black helmet with the Bills’ 1962-73 logo on the sides during their annual Blue and Red practice at Highmark Stadium in early August, which – thankfully – won’t be worn in a game.
Meanwhile, Buffalo has not yet announced which game will feature its all-red Color Rush uniforms, though it’s worth noting they have been worn at least once each season since they debuted in 2015.
Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins announced they will wear the home version of their 1966 throwback uniforms against the Buffalo Bills on Sept. 12, then don the road version for their Thanksgiving Day matchup with the Green Bay Packers.
Despite fans and Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino calling for a switch, chief executive officer Tom Garfinkel said the Dolphins have no plans to promote the throwback uniforms to full-time status.
New England Patriots
Although it hasn’t officially been announced, the Patriots subtly hinted that they’ll wear their “Pat Patriot” throwback uniforms against the Los Angeles Rams on Nov. 17 and Indianapolis Colts on Dec. 1.
Meanwhile, New England’s team captains will wear a “C” patch on their jerseys for the first time since the league began formally recognizing them in 2007. That leaves the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers as the only teams that have never worn captains’ patches.
The Patriots also subtly introduced a new secondary logo this offseason, with a partial version of their “Flying Elvis” logo and “NE” included inside of a roundel, which features their full team name and year of establishement.
New York Jets
The Jets have promoted their “Legacy” throwback uniforms to full-time road status and unveiled corresponding green home and black alternate designs, all of which feature an updated version of their 1978-97 logo on the helmets.
Speaking of… former employee Jim Pons is suing the franchise and the NFL for unspecified damages, as he claims he designed the original logo while working as the Jets’ film and video director.
New York also unveiled “The Classic” throwback uniforms, which will be worn against the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 14. They pay homage to the 1968 Jets, who stunned the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, as well as their road uniforms from 1998-2018.
That gives New York three different helmet options, including green, black and white shells. The Jets have announced they’ll wear the black helmets with their new black alternate uniforms against the Houston Texans on Halloween.
AFC North
Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens unveiled a new purple alternate helmet, which features a gold facemask, gold “talon” stripes down the middle and their front-facing secondary logo on the sides. It will be worn with their Color Rush uniforms against the Cincinnati Bengals on Nov. 7.
Baltimore will also wear its all-black alternate uniforms against the Buffalo Bills on Sept. 29. Both the Ravens’ black and purple alternate helmets will feature a decal in honor of former wide receiver Jacoby Jones and offensive line coach Joe D’Alessandris, who passed away this offseason.
Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals introduced the first orange pants in franchise history, which will be worn as part of an all-orange ensemble during the season opener against the New England Patriots on Sept. 8 and paired with black jerseys against the Cleveland Browns on Dec. 19.
Cincinnati also announced it will wear its white alternate helmets, which have been paired with their white road jersey and pants since last season, against the Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 27 and orange alternate jersey a second time against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Dec. 1.
Additionally, the Bengals revealed an updated turf design for the upcoming season that includes simplified stripes in the end zones and their current number font for the yard markers.
Cleveland Browns
The Browns have returned to white facemasks and a glossy finish on their standard orange helmets and updated their logo to reflect the change after nine seasons with a brown facemask matte finish.
Meanwhile, Cleveland will wear its 1946 throwback uniforms – complete with a white alternate helmet that was introduced last season – at the Las Vegas Raiders on Sept. 29, at the Denver Broncos on Dec. 2 and against the Kansas City Chiefs on Dec. 15. That means they won’t wear their Color Rush uniforms for the second year in a row.
The Browns also solicited fan input for their field design for the third year in a row, with Brownie the Elf once again being selected for the 50-yard line at the newly named Huntington Bank Field – though the photos shown above are actually photoshopped renderings of the 2022 field.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson and defensive lineman Cameron Heyward will become the first teammates to simultaneously wear the Walter Payton Man of the Year patch, as they won the award in 2020 and 2023, respectively.
AFC South
Houston Texans
The Texans unveiled four new uniforms this offseason, including a traditional home look, white road and red alternate sets with horns on the sleeves and an “H-Town” blue-accented design that pays homage to the city of Houston.
The team notably adjusted its shade of blue to better reflect what was initially unveiled in 2000 and updated the color of its standard blue helmets as a result. The Texans also added horns to their red alternate helmets and introduced a second blue helmet with red flakes and their new secondary logo on the sides.
The “H-Town” Color Rush uniforms will debut against the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 6, while the “Battle Red” alternate set will be worn for the first time against the Detroit Lions on Nov. 10.
Indianapolis Colts
The Colts will wear their “Indiana Nights” alternate uniforms, complete with black helmets, against the Detroit Lions on Nov. 24. They’ll also host a “Winter Whiteout” and wear all-white uniforms against the Tennessee Titans on Dec. 22.
Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars will wear 1990s throwback uniforms, including black helmets with their original logo on the sides and teal jerseys with black and gold accents and full-bodied jaguar logo on the sleeves, against the Indianapolis Colts on Oct. 6.
The uniforms, which are often mistaken as Jacksonville’s original design, feature a custom number font that is also prominently displayed in the Jaguars’ 30th season logo, which will likely be worn as a patch on their uniforms once the regular season begins.
Jacksonville also unveiled new “Shell White” alternate helmets, which will be worn with its black alternate jerseys against the Minnesota Vikings on Nov. 10. The plain white shell includes the Jaguars’ primary logo on the sides and a black facemask.
Tennessee Titans
After scrapping them last season to make way for their Houston Oilers throwback uniforms, the Titans will bring back their light blue alternate jerseys for at least one game this season. They have already been worn twice this preseason.
Tennessee has not yet revealed which games the Oilers throwback uniforms will return, either, though team reporter Jim Wyatt has suggested they’ll likely be worn just once, naturally, against the Houston Texans on Jan. 5.
AFC West
Denver Broncos
The Broncos unveiled three new uniforms – orange home, white road and blue alternate uniforms with a mountain-like design on the sleeves – as part of the first overhaul of their look in 27 years and reintroduced their “Orange Crush” throwback uniforms, complete with royal blue helmets.
Denver’s updated blue helmets feature a matte finish to match their white alternate helmets, which now display the team’s primary logo on the sides. Both helmets also feature a truncated cluster of triangles – representing mountain peaks – down the middle.
The Broncos will wear their throwback uniforms twice this season, including Oct. 6 against the Las Vegas Raiders and Jan. 5 against the Kansas City Chiefs, while the blue alternate uniforms and white helmets will debut against the Cleveland Browns on Dec. 2.
Kansas City Chiefs
Team president Mark Donovan acknowledged that owner Clark Hunt is warming up to the idea of the Chiefs wearing an alternate uniform, though he added it’s “a high bar that’s going to have to be crossed to actually get it done.”
Meanwhile, Kansas City has dropped the “NKH” patch on the right shoulder of its jerseys that honored late minority owner Norma Knobel Hunt, the widow of founder Lamar Hunt, who still has a patch in his honor on the left shoulder.
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders have added a decal to the back of their helmets in honor of late Hall of Fame center Jim Otto, who passed away in May at the age of 86. It looks exactly like the decal they’ve worn in honor of late owner Al Davis since 2011, though it features Otto’s famed No. 00 instead of his initials.
Additionally, the franchise will celebrate its 65th season this year with a commemorative logo, which prominently includes the outline and swords from the Raiders’ logo and the Roman numerals “LXV,” with the “L” and “V” in silver as a nod to Las Vegas. It’s unclear if the logo will be worn as a patch during the regular season, however.
Los Angeles Chargers
The Chargers have seemingly scrapped their royal blue Color Rush uniforms and corresponding helmet decals, leaving their powder blue home, white road and navy blue Color Rush uniforms in their closet. They’ll wear the navy blue Color Rush set just once, as well, when they host the Baltimore Ravens on Nov. 25.
NFC East
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys will wear their “Arctic Cowboy” Color Rush uniforms at the New York Giants on Sept. 26 and at home versus the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 9. They’ll also don their throwback uniforms against the New York Giants on Thanksgiving Day.
New York Giants
The Giants will debut their new “Century Red” throwback uniforms – which mostly honor the 1933 team that appeared in the first-ever NFL Championship game – in the season opener against the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 8.
The uniforms are almost identical to what New York wore below the shoulders that season, including a red jersey with white numbers contained within horizontal blue and white stripes that wrap around the jersey, as well as tan pants.
The jerseys, which also feature a blue collar and shoulder yoke, were originally paired with a blue leather helmet with red stripes, but they’ll now be worn with a winged helmet more reminiscent of their 1937-47 design. The Giants will simply swap the decals on their standard blue helmets to accomplish this look.
The uniforms are complete with the Giants’ 100th anniversary logo on the left shoulder, where it will also appear on their blue home, white road and 1980-99 throwback jerseys, which will once again be paired with navy blue helmets. They have scrapped their all-white Color Rush uniforms, meanwhile.
Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles will wear a new uniform combination in the season opener against the Green Bay Packers in Brazil on Sept. 6, as they’ll pair their black alternate helmets with their white jerseys and black pants for the first time.
This likely means Philadelphia received an exemption from the NFL regarding the use of a third helmet shell, unless the league considers them updating the wordmark on their jerseys this offseason as a redesign, too.
Meanwhile, the decision to wear this combination likely stems from the Eagles’ desire to match the colors worn by Corinthians, the soccer club that plays at Neo Química Arena in São Paulo, where the game will take place.
Philadelphia is considered the home team for this matchup, so wearing white jerseys also forces the Packers into wearing green jerseys, just like Corinthians’ biggest rival, Palmeiras, in a stadium where the color is “banned.”
That said, this will be the only time the Eagles wear black helmets this season, as they’ll wear their Kelly green throwback uniforms against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Nov. 3 and Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 29.
Washington Commanders
The Commanders have reintroduced gold pants to their uniform rotation, an option that has not been available to them since they rebranded from the Washington Football Team in 2022.
It’s unclear when the Commanders will wear the gold pants, though they could be paired with their burgundy home, white road or black alternate jerseys. Meanwhile, they have announced they’ll wear their black alternate helmets and jerseys against the Chicago Bears on Oct. 27 and Tennessee Titans on Dec. 1.
Finally, the Commanders’ stadium will now be called Northwest Stadium after the team reached a naming rights deal with Northwest Federal Credit Union worth more than $8 million per year through the 2031 season. It had been known as FedEx Field since 1999, but the company opted out of the deal two years before it was set to expire.
NFC North
Chicago Bears
The Bears quietly added the initials of late founder, owner and coach George S. Halas to the left sleeve of their 1936 throwback uniforms, matching their navy blue, white road and orange alternate jerseys.
Detroit Lions
The Lions unveiled new Honolulu blue home, white road and black alternate uniforms in April, all of which feature sleeves stripes reminiscent of the racing stripes on a Ford Mustang and the vertical bars in their 1961-69 logo.
The Honolulu blue home jersey does not include a wordmark across the chest, while the white road jersey prominently displays a “Detroit” wordmark and the black alternate jersey has “Lions” above the numbers.
Detroit’s silver and Honolulu blue alternate helmets received a makeover, as well, with the same striping pattern as the sleeves down the center of both lids.
The silver helmets now feature a Honolulu blue facemask, just like they did from 1984-2002, while the black lids includes Bubbles – the Lions’ primary logo – on the sides and a black facemask after displaying their 1961-69 logo last season.
Lastly, only Detroit’s silver pants have the aforementioned stripes down the sides, while the blue and black options are stripeless.
Green Bay Packers
The Packers will debut their new white alternate helmets against the Houston Texans on Oct. 20. This marks the second white helmet in franchise history, as Green Bay briefly wore a white shell from 1956-58.
Like those helmets, which included a single green stripe down the middle and a gray facemask, the Packers’ new white lids are completely devoid of gold, with their primary logo on the sides, green and white Brashier stripes down the middle and a white facemask.
Perhaps the lack of gold is a nod to those original white helmets, though it looks somewhat out of place when paired with their all-white Color Rush uniforms, which were introduced in 2016 and feature gold on the collar, sleeves and pants.
Minnesota Vikings
The Vikings unveiled their new “Winter Warrior” alternate uniforms this offseason, which will debut during their third-annual “Winter Whiteout” game against the Chicago Bears on Dec. 16.
The uniforms feature the first white helmet in franchise history, as well as new white jerseys that follow the same template as Minnesota’s standard road design but includes metallic silver accents instead of gold and icicles on the numbers instead of sails.
There’s also a new “Vikings” wordmark on the chest, written in their custom “Skol” font, as well as a Nordic knot design on the back collar with three shields as a nod to head coach Kevin O’Connell’s mantra of “Our Way. Our Team. Our Process.”
NFC South
Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons will wear their throwback uniforms, complete with red helmets, in three games this season, including matchups with the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 29, Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Oct. 3 and New York Giants on Dec. 22.
Carolina Panthers
The Panthers will wear their blue alternate jerseys against the Atlanta Falcons on Oct. 13 and New York Giants on Nov. 10. It’s unclear when they’ll wear their black alternate helmets, meanwhile, though they’ll be worn with black jerseys and black pants against the New Orleans Saints on Nov. 3, Kansas City Chiefs on Nov. 24, Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Dec. 1 or Arizona Cardinals on Dec. 22.
Carolina will also celebrate its 30th season this year with a commemorative logo, which will be worn on the left shoulder of the Panthers’ jerseys this season. Unlike other commemorative logos on this list, it was actually worn during the preseason.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Buccaneers announced they’ll wear their creamsicle throwback uniforms against the Atlanta Falcons on Oct. 27, as well as a “Red Out” against the Las Vegas Raiders on Dec. 8, though they’ll likely only wear their standard red home jerseys with pewter or white pants, as red pants aren’t currently in their uniform rotation.
NFC West
San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers will wear their 1994 throwback uniforms three times this season, including the road version against the Seattle Seahawks on Oct. 10 and the home version against the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 27 and the Detroit Lions on Dec. 30.
Seattle Seahawks
The Seahawks announced they will wear their 1990s-era throwback uniforms against their former AFC West rivals, the Denver Broncos, in the season opener on Sept. 8, as well as against the San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 10.
Additionally, former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown – who accurately leaked several uniforms that were unveiled this offseason – claimed to have inside information on a white Seahawks jersey with royal blue numbers and Action green accents.
We can dispute the validity of this leak, as it not only uses a Nike Vapor F.U.S.E. template that should look familiar to our readers, but all of his actual leaks came from an online retail catalog that show a Fanatics logo in the corner.
