The NFL postseason might be expanding as soon as next season.
According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the NFL and the NFLPA's current new collective bargaining agreement proposal would boost the sport's postseason from six teams per conference to seven. In addition, only one team from each conference would receive a first-round bye, according to Schefter, as opposed to two.
The new CBA, per Schefter, could be completed "sometime in the next week" and the postseason format changes would take effect in the 2020 season.
"That's been agreed to for a long time," one source familiar with the CBA talks told ESPN.