How I'm talking to my fantasy team before the NFL season starts

The 2026 NFL season officially kicks off tonight, and fantasy football season goes right along with it. Seattle hosts New England at Lumen Field in a genuine Super Bowl LX rematch, airing exclusively on NBC at 8:20 p.m. ET — the same two teams that closed out last season on the league’s biggest stage now reopen it together. It’s only the fifth Wednesday-night game the NFL has played since 2012, a scheduling shift made specifically to clear the runway for the league’s first-ever regular season game in Australia the very next night. From tonight through the full Sunday slate on September 13 and into Monday Night Football, the entire NFL calendar — and every fantasy lineup locked in around it — officially starts counting for real.