It seems like there’s a new uniform or helmet dropping every day in the NFL because, frankly, there is. In fact, nearly half of the league is making some sort of change to their uniforms for the 2025 season.
Teams such as the Los Angeles Chargers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have unveiled new alternate uniforms this summer, but the big reason why so many teams are adding new looks is due to the league’s “Rivalries” program.
In April, the league announced that it was unveiling “Rivalries” uniforms for each team over the next four years as part of its partnership with Nike. The practice will be similar to what Nike does with MLB (City Connects) and the NBA (City Edition) uniforms. AFC East teams (Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Jets) and NFC West teams (Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks) will be the first to receive their “Rivalries” uniforms, which are expected to debut in the 2025 season.
Let’s take a look at which teams have unveiled changes to their uniform closet thus far.
The Seahawks have been teasing their new jerseys all week. They’ll be worn in Week 4 against the Cardinals, in Week 11 against the Rams and in Week 18 against the 49ers. What’s more, the three other NFC West teams will all debut their “Rivalries” uniforms against Seattle.
Established in 1921, the Packers are the third-oldest team in NFL history and have dropped a “1923 Classic” jersey for next season that honors the franchise’s earliest days. It features a brown helmet, navy blue jersey with yellow numbers and brown pants. A “GREEN BAY PACKERS FOOTBALL CLUB” patch is included on the jersey.
The Packers haven’t yet announced when these uniforms will be worn during the 2025 season.
The Browns have been known for the orange helmet since their first season in 1946, but they announced that — for the first time — they will be rocking brown helmets with their all-brown uniform combination.
The Browns will wear these helmets, sponsored by Dude Wipes, during three home games this season: on Sept. 21 against the Packers, on Oct. 19 against the Dolphins and on Dec. 7 against the Tennessee Titans.
The Browns have worn an all-white helmet before with the all-white color rush uniforms, but not an everyday helmet.
Buffalo’s red helmets are back! The Bills announced that they’re planning to wear their famous red helmets in Week 18, the final game at Highmark Stadium against their division rival, the Jets.
The Bills rocked red helmets from 1987 to 2010, and now they’re paying homage to that era and allowing fans to relive some of the best moments in franchise history. The Bills switched to white helmets with their rebranding in 2011. MVP QB Josh Allen toyed with bringing back the red helmet when he’d wear one during scrimmage practices in front of fans in 2022. The Bills will also be bringing back throwback “Standing Buffalo” uniforms in Weeks 5 and 11.
New helmets aren’t the only additions being made to the Saints’ uniform closet for the 2025 season. New Orleans will have new alternate uniforms, too.
The Saints unveiled their gold alternate jerseys, which the team is calling their “Gameday Golds.” They have a gold base with the black name and number plates that also have white outlining. The collars on the jerseys are also black.
For the vast majority of their existence, the Saints have only worn black and white-based jerseys. In fact, there’s only been one instance where they’ve worn a jersey that didn’t have black or white as the primary color. They wore gold jerseys, along with gold helmets and black pants, for a game in 2002.
Saints wide receivers Rashid Shaheed and Brandin Cooks don Saints’ new alternate jerseys. (Andrew Boyd/New Orleans Saints)
At the unveiling of their gold jerseys, Saints players wore black pants. So, it doesn’t appear that gold pants are making their way to New Orleans quite yet. New Orleans didn’t announce when it would wear the new gold jerseys in 2025.
The Saints unveiled new helmets in early July. The helmets have their traditional logo placed in the center with their typical gold color. There’s also a large gold stripe that goes through the center of the helmet, while the facemasks are also gold. They are reportedly expected to only wear the new helmets when they wear their white color rush uniforms.
The Saints unveiled new alternate helmets for the 2025 NFL season (Photo Courtesy: New Orleans Saints on X).
The Steelers are throwing it back in 2025, and as far as they can. For their classic alternate this season, they’ll be wearing 1933 throwbacks from when the team was known as the Pittsburgh Pirates — yes, just like MLB’s own team, which had been in existence in the city since 1882. They’d remain the Pirates through the 1939 season, and in 1940, swapped monikers to honor something else that Pittsburgh was known for: the Steel City’s football team would be known from that point forward as the Steelers.
These jerseys are still black and gold, but there is far more of the latter and less of the former in these uniforms than we see today. They are yellow jerseys with some black accents and designs on them, tan pants and have matching yellow socks. These uniforms were also the Steelers’ very first throwback, in 1994, though they looked a bit different then, with the numbers once again in the center of the jersey as they were in 1933, rather than offset on the shoulder.
The Chargers unveiled new alternative jerseys for the 2025 season, featuring the “Charger Power” and “Super Chargers” looks. The “Charger Power” is a yellow-on-yellow look with white helmets, which will be worn when the Chargers host the Indianapolis Colts in Week 7, with the “Super Chargers” being the team’s historic navy-blue look, which will be worn when they host the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 13.
“I feel like the Chargers have the best uniforms,” Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. said. “There’s just something about the powder blue, the white, the gold, and after these new alternates drop — it won’t be close.”
The Bucs announced that they’re bringing back their 1976 uniform for their 2025 home opener on Sept. 21 against the Jets. The “Creamsicle” white jersey is a commemoration of the team’s 1976 debut season in the sport. The white jersey will be joined by white helmets and pants and striped socks, with a 50th season patch on the jersey. “Hey! Hey! Tampa Bay!,” the franchise’s old rallying cry, is stitched on the collar.
“The ’76 Jersey represents a piece of Buccaneers history and serves as a tribute to the generations of fans and players who shaped this franchise,” Bucs COO Brian Ford said in a statement. “As we launch into our 50th season, we’re proud to reintroduce The ’76 Jersey and the tradition it embodies. It is a reminder that every Buccaneers fan, from the originals to the newest generation, is part of an evolving story that started in 1976 and continues being written today.”
After a surprise NFC Championship Game appearance in 2024, the Commanders are tapping into the franchise’s most successful period as the inspiration for their new alternate uniforms. They unveiled their “Super Bowl Era” alternate uniforms, which are modeled after the uniforms the team wore in their Super Bowl wins in 1982, 1987 and 1991.
The jerseys have a white base with burgundy numbers that have gold outlines. There are also gold stripes on the sleeves, while the nameplates are burgundy with gold outlines. The pants and socks will be burgundy, with each having gold outlining, too. As for the helmets, they’ll resemble the helmets the franchise wore during that era, just with their new logo instead of their old one. The burgundy-colored helmet will have white and gold stripes down the center to go with a gold facemask.
The Commanders will wear these uniforms on three occasions in 2025: first when they host the Seahawks in Week 9, when they host the Denver Broncos in Week 13 and against the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas Day in Week 17.
Jayden Daniels previewed how the Commanders’ new alternate uniform will look on him (Kourtney Carroll/Washington Commanders).
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