Along with the release of the 2020 regular-season schedule, the slate of preseason games was also released, but the dates were TBD. Those games may not matter in terms of the Raiders’ record, but they matter in that they are to be the first-ever Raiders games played at the new Allegiant Stadium.
What we knew was they would be playing their first two preseason games as the Las Vegas Raiders in Seattle and San Francisco and the final two preseason games at home. Pushing the games to the end of the preseason allows for more time to ensure the stadium is ready, plus the team will have broken camp in Napa by then and officially moved to Vegas.
Thursday the team announce the exact dates for those first games.
The first-ever game at Allegiant Stadium is scheduled to be Thursday, August 27 against the Arizona Cardinals.
The second will be against the Rams on Thursday, September 3rd.
Any scheduled games are still an uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting things down. It basically makes the entire preseason, and even the regular season a TBD situation. But the NFL has to move forward with a schedule should the season go off unaltered.
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