Early last year, the NFL owners and Players’ Association agreed upon a 10-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that laid the foundation for a variety of minor (and some major) changes to take place in the way the NFL runs its operations through the 2020s.
One of the more significant changes was the agreement to add a 17th regular season game to the schedule beginning with the 2021 season. A small concession was made in terms of sacrificing one of the four pre-season games that had previously existed, but the extra regular season game is sure to have a variety of important impacts, from roster management to salary inflation and beyond.