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The Three Theme Games
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White Noise: Week 2 vs. Saints (Sunday, September 20)
The Ravens broke their summer-long silence with White Noise, debuting Sunday, September 20 at 1:00 against New Orleans, under the tagline "every decibel counts." The team confirmed the full combination in game week: the metallic Purple Rising helmet with a white jersey and white pants. Baltimore is also asking the crowd to wear white, so the whiteout is in the stands while the purple shell stands alone on the field.
Our verdict: this might end up the best look in the entire Next Flight collection. White uniforms live or die on whether the accent carries the design, and a metallic purple shell over head-to-toe white is about as strong as that accent gets. It reads from the upper deck, it photographs in the September sun, and it does something Baltimore's road whites never do, because those come with the standard shell. If the Ravens were only going to name one date all summer, they named the right look.
It is worth being precise about what this is: a home game in white. Baltimore's road whites are the standard set; White Noise is the Next Flight alternate treatment, worn by choice at M&T Bank Stadium, which means the Saints will have to answer in color. They have: New Orleans comes in gold helmet, black jersey, black pants, so it is all white under a purple shell against black on black under gold.
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Purple Rising: Week 9 vs. Jaguars (Thursday, November 5, 8:15)
The all-purple combination gets the Thursday night window: purple jersey, purple pants, and the new Purple Rising helmet carrying the franchise's primary logo. This is the one the whole Next Flight program was built around. The Ravens wore essentially one helmet for thirty seasons, and the Purple Rising shell is the first real alternative, so putting it under the lights on a standalone Thursday against Jacksonville is the right way to introduce it. The team is pairing the night with its Salute to Service promotion.
Our read: monochrome purple is a look very few teams can pull off, and Baltimore is one of them, because nobody else owns the color. Whether the Purple Rising helmet reads as an upgrade on television, rather than just as a change, is the question this game answers.
How it looked: worn as announced, purple from helmet to socks, against the Jaguars in white jerseys and white pants. It looked great in the rain. The game did not: Jacksonville won 33-10.
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Darkness Falls: Week 10 vs. Chargers (Monday, November 16, 8:15)
The black set debuts on Monday Night Football: black jersey, black pants, and the matte black Darkness helmet with two-tone talon stripes and the front-facing raven mark with the glowing red eyes. It is the most aggressive piece in the collection, and Baltimore gave it the most aggressive slot, a Monday nighter at home in the middle of November.
The matchup helps. The Chargers have already published their side of this game: white jersey with powder blue pants, per the Chargers 2026 uniform schedule. Black to the floor on one sideline, white and powder on the other, under the lights. That is a genuinely well-designed television game, and it is the one we would circle if you only watch one Ravens home game for the uniforms. Everything about the night is in Ravens Darkness Falls on Monday Night Football.
Week 3 in Rio Is the Most Interesting Game on the Calendar
Baltimore plays Dallas at the Maracanã on Sunday, September 27, and two facts stack up to put the Ravens in color on the road.
First, Dallas is the designated home team. NFL.com lists the game as Ravens at Cowboys. Baltimore's own schedule page renders it as "vs", which is how this gets miscounted, but Baltimore is the visitor and the game does not count as one of their eight home dates.
Second, Dallas wears white at home. The Cowboys are the one club in the NFL that does this by tradition, which is precisely why a trip to face them is the rare road game where the visiting team gets to choose a colored jersey. Philadelphia has used it for Kelly Green; the Chargers used it last season for a gold jersey in Tampa under the same logic.
So Baltimore wears purple in Brazil, in a 4:25 national window, against a white-clad Dallas team. The team has now confirmed it in its game-day post: the primary black helmet, the purple jersey and black pants, the same black-bracketed look it used in white at Indianapolis. Our Cowboys 2026 uniform schedule has the other side of it.
The Next Flight Collection
Baltimore launched Next Flight in April 2026, a full uniform refresh rather than a single alternate, and it is the biggest change to how this team looks since the franchise's early years. It includes a matte black Darkness helmet and a Purple Rising helmet, which is the part that matters most, because the Ravens had worn essentially one helmet for their entire existence.
We graded the whole collection when it dropped: Ravens 2026 uniforms reviewed.
The schedule arrived in two pieces. White Noise got its game on August 24, the Week 2 home date against New Orleans. Then on September 1 the Ravens published the rest of the theme-game plan, naming Purple Rising for Week 9 and Darkness Falls for Week 10, which matches how Baltimore has handled it in previous seasons: a primetime alternate plan announced before the opener.
A Warning About What You Will Find Searching for It
If you go looking, you will still find a Ravens page announcing "Darkness Falls" for a Monday nighter against Detroit and "Purple Rising" for Thanksgiving against Cincinnati. That page is from 2025. It refers to the 30th season celebration, it puts Thanksgiving on November 27, which is a Friday in 2026, and there is no Ravens-Lions game on the 2026 schedule at all. The 2026 dates are the ones above: Purple Rising against Jacksonville on November 5, Darkness Falls against the Chargers on November 16.
What Is Still Open
The theme games are set, but Baltimore has not said which helmet goes with the standard purple home set in Weeks 4, 7 and 16, or which helmet and pants go with the black Darkness Falls jersey when it returns in Weeks 14 and 18. Historically the Ravens have held the alternate helmets to their theme games, so the default read is the classic purple helmet everywhere else. If any of it gets named, it goes on this page the day it does.
Purple at M&T Bank Stadium (4 Games)
Weeks 4, 7, 9 and 16. Tennessee, Cincinnati, Jacksonville on Thursday as the all-purple Purple Rising game, and Cleveland. Week 2 against New Orleans comes off this list as the White Noise game, and the black Darkness Falls jersey takes three home dates: Week 10 against the Chargers, Week 14 against Tampa Bay, and Week 18 against Pittsburgh to close the regular season.
The purple is the whole identity. It is the only one in the league, nobody can take it, and the fact that Baltimore built a modern helmet program around deepening it rather than escaping it is the smartest thing about Next Flight.
White on the Road (7 Games)
Baltimore has confirmed the opener in Indianapolis: black helmet, white jersey, black pants. That is the road look at its sharpest, the white jersey bracketed top and bottom by black so it reads as a bright band between two dark ones rather than a white shape trailing into white legs. Against a Colts side in blue at home, the black pants are what keep Baltimore from looking like the lighter, thinner team on the field.
Weeks 1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 15. The Week 5 Sunday nighter in Atlanta is the one with the biggest audience.
Purple in Cincinnati (Week 17)
The Thursday night game on New Year's Eve is the second road date where Baltimore wears purple, after Rio, and it is the Bengals' decision: Cincinnati is at home in white for its White Bengal Stripe night, and with the home team in white the visitor wears its color. Purple against white in prime time is one of the best-looking road games on the Ravens' schedule.
How the Ravens Rotation Works in 2026
- Purple at home, white on the road, unless the team designates otherwise.
- Three theme games are confirmed: White Noise in Week 2, Purple Rising in Week 9, and Darkness Falls in Week 10. Both new Next Flight helmets debut on their named nights.
- Rio is a road game, and Baltimore wears purple there because Dallas wears white at home.
- Darkness Falls comes back twice, in Week 14 against Tampa Bay and Week 18 against Pittsburgh.
- The "Darkness Falls vs. Lions" schedule you may find in search results is the 2025 article. The 2026 Darkness Falls game is Monday, November 16 against the Chargers.
- Pants and helmet combinations are a week-of call, as they are for every club.
The Bottom Line
Baltimore spent real money and real design effort on Next Flight, and every piece of it now has a date. White Noise opens the home schedule in Week 2, Purple Rising takes the Thursday night in Week 9, and Darkness Falls gets Monday night in Week 10 against a Chargers team that will be in white and powder blue. That is three national-window showcases for three different helmets, which is exactly how you launch a collection, and the black jersey returns for Week 14 against Tampa Bay and the Week 18 finale against Pittsburgh.
The date worth circling is Week 3 in Rio. A purple jersey against a white Dallas team, in a stadium that size, in the afternoon national window, is the best-looking game Baltimore plays all year.
How does every one of these jerseys stack up? See our Ravens jerseys 2026 ranking, every jersey in the closet graded from best to worst.
Frequently Asked Questions
What jersey are the Ravens wearing today?
Week 9 (Thursday, November 5, 8:15 p.m. ET vs. Jacksonville, Thursday Night Football on Prime Video): the Ravens wear Purple Rising, the purple jersey, purple pants and the new Purple Rising helmet, confirmed by the team. The Jaguars have confirmed the black helmet, white jersey and white pants. Week 10 against the Chargers on Monday Night Football is the all-black Darkness Falls debut. This answer updates every week. For the rest of the season: Purple if Baltimore is at M&T Bank Stadium, white if they are on the road, with three confirmed exceptions: Week 2 against the Saints is the all-white White Noise game, Week 9 against the Jaguars is the all-purple Purple Rising game, and Week 10 against the Chargers is the all-black Darkness Falls game. We also have purple on the road in Rio in Week 3 and at Cincinnati in Week 17, and the black Darkness Falls jersey at home against Tampa Bay in Week 14 and Pittsburgh in Week 18.
What is the Ravens White Noise uniform?
A white home look from the Next Flight collection: white jersey, white pants and the metallic Purple Rising helmet, confirmed by the team in game week. Baltimore debuts it in Week 2 against New Orleans on September 20, 2026, and is asking fans to wear white for a whiteout in the stands.
What jerseys are the Ravens wearing this week?
Week 9 (Thursday, November 5, 8:15 p.m. ET vs. Jacksonville, Thursday Night Football on Prime Video): the Ravens wear Purple Rising, the purple jersey, purple pants and the new Purple Rising helmet, confirmed by the team. The Jaguars have confirmed the black helmet, white jersey and white pants. Week 10 against the Chargers on Monday Night Football is the all-black Darkness Falls debut. For the rest of the season: Purple if Baltimore is at M&T Bank Stadium, white if they are on the road, with three confirmed exceptions: Week 2 against the Saints is the all-white White Noise game, Week 9 against the Jaguars is the all-purple Purple Rising game, and Week 10 against the Chargers is the all-black Darkness Falls game. We also have purple on the road in Rio in Week 3 and at Cincinnati in Week 17, and the black Darkness Falls jersey at home against Tampa Bay in Week 14 and Pittsburgh in Week 18.
Last week, Week 7 against Cincinnati, October 25, worn: black helmet, purple jersey and purple pants, as announced. The Bengals wore white over white pants, and Cincinnati won 35-13. We grade the matchup a B. For the rest of the season: Purple if Baltimore is at M&T Bank Stadium, white if they are on the road, with three confirmed exceptions: Week 2 against the Saints is the all-white White Noise game, Week 9 against the Jaguars is the all-purple Purple Rising game, and Week 10 against the Chargers is the all-black Darkness Falls game. We also have purple on the road in Rio in Week 3 and at Cincinnati in Week 17, and the black Darkness Falls jersey at home against Tampa Bay in Week 14 and Pittsburgh in Week 18.
What uniform did the Ravens wear last week?
For the uniform we logged in their most recent game, see the NFL uniform tracker, which we update through the week.
What jerseys do the Ravens have in 2026?
Five uniforms. The purple home set covers four games at M&T Bank Stadium, Weeks 4, 7 and 16 plus the Purple Rising night in Week 9, and purple travels twice, Week 3 against Dallas in Rio, where the Cowboys are the home team in white, and Week 17 at Cincinnati, because the Bengals are at home in white for their White Bengal Stripe night. The white road set covers seven trips, and the opener at Indianapolis was confirmed as black helmet, white jersey and black pants. The new thing for 2026 is the Next Flight collection, launched in April, a full refresh that gave a franchise which had worn essentially one helmet for thirty seasons two more, and all three of its theme games now have dates. White Noise is Week 2 against the Saints on Sunday, September 20, the metallic Purple Rising helmet over a white jersey and white pants at home. Purple Rising is Week 9 against the Jaguars on Thursday, November 5, purple jersey and purple pants under the Purple Rising helmet. Darkness Falls is Week 10 against the Chargers on Monday, November 16, black jersey and black pants under the matte black Darkness helmet with the red-eyed raven, and we have the black Darkness Falls jersey back for Week 14 against Tampa Bay and Week 18 against Pittsburgh.
When do the Ravens wear the black uniform in 2026?
Three times, all at home. The debut is Monday, November 16, in Week 10 against the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football, 8:15 kickoff. The team calls it Darkness Falls: black jersey, black pants, and the matte black Darkness helmet with the red-eyed raven, announced on September 1, 2026. The black Darkness Falls jersey comes back for Week 14 against Tampa Bay and Week 18 against Pittsburgh.
When do the Ravens wear the Purple Rising uniform in 2026?
Thursday, November 5, in Week 9 against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday Night Football, 8:15 kickoff. It is the all-purple combination with the new Purple Rising helmet, and the night doubles as the team's Salute to Service game.
Are the Ravens wearing Darkness Falls uniforms against the Lions?
No. That announcement is from the 2025 season and Baltimore does not play Detroit in 2026. The 2026 Darkness Falls game is Monday, November 16 against the Chargers.
What is the Ravens Next Flight collection?
A full uniform refresh launched in April 2026, including a matte black Darkness helmet and a Purple Rising helmet. We reviewed it in full: Ravens 2026 uniforms reviewed.
Are the Ravens the home team in Rio de Janeiro?
No. Dallas is the designated home team for the Week 3 game at the Maracanã on September 27. Baltimore's schedule page shows it as "vs", but NFL.com lists it as Ravens at Cowboys.
Could the Ravens wear purple on the road in 2026?
Yes, twice. Week 3 against Dallas in Rio, because the Cowboys are the designated home team and wear white, and Week 17 at Cincinnati, where the Bengals are at home in white for their White Bengal Stripe night.
How many uniforms do the Ravens have in 2026?
Five looks with games assigned: the purple home set, the white road set, the all-white White Noise look in Week 2, the all-purple Purple Rising look with its new helmet in Week 9, and the all-black Darkness Falls look, which debuts with the matte black helmet in Week 10 and returns in Weeks 14 and 18.
Why are the Ravens wearing black?
All black is Darkness Falls, one of Baltimore's three named theme games from the Next Flight collection: black jersey, black pants and the matte black Darkness helmet with the red-eyed raven. It debuts at home against the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football, November 16, 2026, and the black jersey returns for Week 14 against Tampa Bay and Week 18 against Pittsburgh.
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Schedule via the Baltimore Ravens and NFL.com. White Noise announced by the Ravens on August 24, 2026; Purple Rising and Darkness Falls announced on September 1, 2026; theme-game graphic courtesy of the team. All other uniform assignments follow the standard NFL home-and-away rotation. ColorWay Sports is an independent design site and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any NFL club or the National Football League.
