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If the LA Rams schedule expands to 17 games, who would they play?

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If you’ve been following the latest buzz about the LA Rams or even the NFL as a whole, you may have caught wind of a proposed 17th game in the NFL schedule as soon as the 2021 NFL season.
But if that happens, when will it take place? Where will it take place? And perhaps most importantly, who will the LA Rams face if it takes place?

The ‘why’ it will happen is fairly straightforward. When the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) was signed in 2020 between the NFL and the NFLPA last off-season, one of the new wrinkles agreed upon by both sides was the potential to play 17 games.