Dan Graziano May 14, 2026, 08:15 PM ET Close Dan Graziano is a senior NFL national reporter for ESPN, covering the entire league and breaking news. Dan also contributes to Get Up, NFL Live, SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, Sunday NFL Countdown and Fantasy Football Now. He is a New Jersey native who joined ESPN in 2011, and he is also the author of two published novels. Ah, the NFL schedule release . A time of hope, excitement, social media fun and, yes, overreactions. Each year around this time, the league releases its full schedule for the upcoming season, so teams and their fans begin to examine it game-by-game. They look at where they got bad breaks and where they got advantages. Why does my favorite team have a bye week so early? What's with these back-to-back-to-back road games? Looking at that first-half schedule, what's stopping us from starting 9-0?…