Sunday NFL Week 2 centers on Patriots home opener and Colts-Chiefs night test

Sunday's NFL Week 2 slate has two clear bookends for the weekend: a crowded 1 p.m. ET window that includes Pittsburgh at New England, followed by Indianapolis at Kansas City in Sunday Night Football. The official league schedule puts the afternoon games on CBS and FOX, then sends Colts-Chiefs to NBC at 8:20 p.m. ET.

The Patriots' home opener is one of the more useful early measuring games. New England hosts Pittsburgh at Gillette Stadium after both teams opened the season with questions that will be answered by how well they handle the line of scrimmage and third downs. The Patriots' own game preview confirms the matchup, time and CBS/WBZ distribution.

The other major storyline is in Kansas City, where the Colts are trying to correct a 41-23 opening loss to Baltimore before facing Patrick Mahomes and a Chiefs offense that ran the ball with unusual volume in Week 1. Indianapolis' official viewing page confirms the 8:20 p.m. ET kickoff and NBC placement.

The rest of the board supplies three distinct afternoon checks. Philadelphia brings a 1-0 record to Tennessee after the Titans opened 0-1, and the Eagles' official preview identifies red-zone execution, fourth-quarter finishing and quarterback Cam Ward's young Titans offense as the matchup's central questions. Green Bay visits the Jets in the 1 p.m. window, while Cincinnati at Houston, New Orleans at Baltimore and Cleveland at Tampa Bay give the first wave several teams trying to avoid an 0-2 start.

The 4 p.m. group is equally easy to sort. Washington and Dallas both enter 0-1 for a division game at AT&T Stadium, so neither can afford another slow start. Seattle and Arizona are both 1-0 before their meeting, making that game the cleanest early-season test between teams that already banked a win. Miami, at 0-1, visits a San Francisco team that opened 1-0. Jacksonville at Denver and Las Vegas at the Chargers fill the other late window, with the road teams trying to change the tone of their seasons before the schedule tightens.

The night game places Indianapolis at Kansas City at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC. The Colts are 0-1 and the Chiefs are 1-0, so Indianapolis is chasing a correction while Kansas City protects its early position. The official schedule places the Patriots-Steelers opener on CBS, the Eagles-Titans matchup on FOX and the late triple-header on FOX. Those confirmed windows give viewers a practical order: start with the New England home opener and the Eagles' road test, then follow the three 4:25 p.m. games before the Colts-Chiefs night checkpoint.