That will help the Vikings with travel to a certain degree in 2018, when Minnesota and the other members of the NFC North are scheduled to play the NFC West and the AFC East.
Based on webflyer.com’s air mileage calculator, the Vikings will travel 14,254 miles for eight regular-season road games.
That total is 2,644 more than the Vikings traveled in 2016 but 2,860 fewer than 2017’s total, which was inflated by Minnesota’s 8,000-mile roundtrip from MSP to London’s Heathrow Airport.
Each year, a team’s travel mileage fluctuates based on the way the schedule rotates.
It is the Vikings turn to visit the Rams and Seahawks (both came to Minnesota in 2015) of the NFC West and the Jets and Patriots of the AFC East (both visited in 2014).