Every NFL coaching staff spends the offseason trying to find a schematic edge -- or correcting for opponents' edges from the prior season. Coordinators can learn a lot from looking at league-wide trends and what has worked for the best teams.
With that in mind, we tried to identify a few NFL trends from 2023 -- both offensive and defensive -- and spin them forward to 2024. Ultimately, we predicted five areas where we could see a spike this season and tried to explain why they might make a big impact on the field.