Las Vegas Raiders vs New Orleans Saints, Week 3 2026

Raiders vs Saints sends Klint Kubiak back into the Caesars Superdome, the building where he called the offense before Las Vegas made him a head coach. This time he is on the visiting sideline and the noise is aimed at him.

Kickoff is 4:25 PM ET on Sunday, September 27, and it is New Orleans' first home game of the year after two weeks on the road. From the opening snap this page takes care of itself: live score, real time score, game leaders, box scores, play-by-play with the game flow chart and team statistics, all of it updating without anyone touching a refresh button.

Raiders vs Saints also drops Kirk Cousins into a dome that has rarely been kind to visiting quarterbacks.

Raiders vs Saints Start Time, TV Channel and Live Stream

Date	Sunday, September 27, 2026
Kickoff	4:25 PM ET / 3:25 PM CT / 2:25 PM MT / 1:25 PM PT
Local time	3:25 PM in New Orleans
TV	CBS
Venue	Caesars Superdome, New Orleans
Home team	New Orleans Saints

CBS has Raiders vs Saints in the late Sunday afternoon window. New Orleans sits in the Central zone, so the local start is 3:25 PM and the crowd spills back into the streets around the dome while there is still daylight.

Klint Kubiak Walks Back Into the Superdome

Kubiak coordinated the New Orleans offense before Las Vegas hired him, and the Saints say it plainly in their own opponent notes: the former play caller comes back to the Superdome as head coach of the Raiders. Coaches switch buildings constantly. Most of them do not get the reunion in Week 3 of their first season in charge.

What he brought with him is a quarterback room built on mileage rather than upside. Kirk Cousins opened camp as the starter and Kubiak refused to hedge about it, saying "Kirk Cousins is the starting quarterback. He's the guy." Fernando Mendoza, the first overall pick, and Aidan O'Connell are there to push him, not to split the job.

That is the quiet tension in Raiders vs Saints. Kubiak knows the building, the way the noise stacks up in it, and half the people in the other locker room, and he is walking in with a 38-year-old quarterback who has to make all of that stop mattering.

New Orleans in Year Two Under Kellen Moore

Moore went 6-11 in his first season, which is not a number anyone puts on a poster, but the back half of it explains why New Orleans is calm. Tyler Shough took the job midway through the year and the Saints went 5-4 with him starting, averaging 19.8 points and 343 total yards a game.

Moore named Shough the starter before camp rather than dragging a competition through August. The defense keeps its spine: Cameron Jordan is still on the edge with Chase Young beside him, Kaden Elliss and Pete Werner behind them. Camp ran through joint practices with Dallas and with the Rams out in California, which is a harder examination than a week of work against your own scout team.

Raiders vs Saints is the first chance to see whether any of that traveled home.

Raiders vs Saints: Two Quarterback Rooms Going Opposite Directions

Las Vegas went veteran on purpose. Cousins takes the snaps while the first overall pick learns the offense from a headset, which is the patient version of a rebuild and the one Kubiak chose over throwing a rookie into September.

New Orleans did the reverse. Shough has nine career starts and the job is already his, with nobody parked in front of him. Zach Wilson is the experienced arm in that room and he is not competing for the role. Raiders vs Saints is a straight test of the two approaches before either has had time to look right or wrong.

Rosters are set. The cut to 53 passed on August 30. Follow the Raiders and Saints pages, and check the NFL standings once three weeks are in the book. The rest of the slate sits on the 2026 NFL schedule.

Getting Into Caesars Superdome

Raiders vs Saints kicks at 4:25 PM and gates open two hours before that, at 2:25 PM. The rule people learn the hard way is re-entry: once you come through the Champions Square entrances you are not getting back out and in again, so whatever you left in the car stays in the car.

Champions Square is worth arriving early for anyway. From there you can walk the full exterior of the building, all 360 degrees of it, and the redesign added express escalators that shorten the climb to the upper levels. On bags, the Saints would rather you carried none; if you must, it is a clear plastic bag no larger than 12" x 6" x 12", or a one-gallon freezer bag, plus a small clutch up to 6.5" x 4.5". The Caesars Superdome A to Z guide handles everything else, down to medical exceptions and where to have them inspected.

Anyone watching Raiders vs Saints from home gets it on CBS with the usual regional map, and Sunday Ticket covers the markets that draw a different game.

Raiders vs Saints FAQ

Raiders vs Saints is a homecoming with an edge on it, and the first honest look at two teams that answered the same quarterback question in opposite ways. Come back on game day for inactives and the live score.

Last updated: August 27, 2026