A look at this weekend’s marquee matchups on TSN

With Thursday’s heavyweight season opener between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams in the books, we turn our attention to the first NFL Sunday of the 2022 campaign.

All season long, TSN and CTV have you covered with wall-to-wall NFL programming each Sunday, beginning this weekend in Week 1.

Here is a look at some of the marquee matchups for this weekend, culminating in what could be one of the juicier showdowns of the early part of season on Monday Night Football.

When: Sunday at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT How to watch: TSN3, TSN4, TSN.ca, the TSN App, CTV (Northern Ontario, Winnipeg), CTV2 (Ottawa, Alberta, Vancouver Island)

The opening NFL Sunday of the season kicks off with an AFC North showdown between the new-look Pittsburgh Steelers and the high-octane Cincinnati Bengals.

Fresh off a trip to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1988, the Bengals are heading into the new season with a target on their backs for the first time in a while. Fresh off five straight losing seasons, Cincinnati rode the electric combination of Joe Burrow and offensive rookie of the year Ja’Marr Chase to become one of the best passing attacks in the league in 2021.

One of the few areas the Bengals struggled last season was protecting Burrow. The former Heisman Trophy winner took 51 sacks last season, the highest total in the league. The Bengals made steps to address that, going out and adding three offensive lineman – centre Ted Karras, right guard Alex Cappa and right tackle La’el Collins -- in free agency.

Burrow is 2-1 against the Steelers in his young career and recorded both of those victories last season. If he were to win a third straight, he’d be the first quarterback in the AFC North to win three straight against the Yellow and