It’s a new era of the National Football League.
The expansion to a 17-game regular season will have an impact on all-time records and statistical data. Our John Dixon laid out all those implications on Saturday — mainly pointing out how much more likely it is for a quarterback to have a 5,000-yard passing season.
With more passing yards come more receiving yards, quite obviously. The Kansas City Chiefs are near locks to have two players surpass 1,000 receiving yards in the regular season: Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill have earned 1,000 yards each in the same season three of the last four years.