Five NFL games we can’t wait to watch in the 2025 season
The NFL schedule for the 2025-2026 season has been released. Here are a few games on our must-watch list.
The construction of the NFL schedule is a complicated process, and it’s not always fair to some teams.
Some teams, like last year’s Kansas City Chiefs, have had to deal with playing three games in 11 days. Much more common is the lack of equity in how far certain teams have to travel compared to others.
For example, when teams in the AFC West and NFC West have away games against East Coast opponents, or vice versa, the miles can accumulate quickly from all of the cross-country flying. Add in the NFL’s efforts to market football internationally, and some teams aren’t just flying across the country but across the world.
As such, some teams are traveling much more than others in 2025.
There’s a difference of more than 25,000 miles between the team traveling the most air miles (Los Angeles Chargers) and the team traveling the fewest (Cincinnati Bengals) this year. Put another way; the Chargers will have traveled more than four times the number of miles that the Bengals will have traveled by the end of the 2025 regular season.
Here’s how each team’s travel mileage shakes out in 2025:
NFL teams’ travel mileage 2025
Here’s how many air miles each team will rack up during the 2025 regular season, according to Bookies.com:
Los Angeles Chargers: 37,086Los Angeles Rams: 34,832Seattle Seahawks: 31,302Jacksonville Jaguars: 29,006San Francisco 49ers: 28,363Atlanta Falcons: 25,947Indianapolis Colts: 25,089Miami Dolphins: 24,409Denver Broncos: 23,267Kansas City Chiefs: 21,695Washington Commanders: 21,363Arizona Cardinals: 20,336Minnesota Vikings: 19,319Houston Texans: 18,982Dallas Cowboys: 18,897Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 18,477Tennessee Titans: 18,157Las Vegas Raiders: 18,055New York Jets: 17,486New Orleans Saints: 16,784New York Giants: 16,081Philadelphia Eagles: 15,924Carolina Panthers: 15,645Pittsburgh Steelers: 15,062Cleveland Browns: 15,028Green Bay Packers: 12,929New England Patriots: 12,547Chicago Bears: 12,522Detroit Lions: 11,411Baltimore Ravens: 10,647Buffalo Bills: 10,546Cincinnati Bengals: 8,753
The Chargers and Rams lead the way significantly, which is no surprise given the international games on the calendar for each team. The “Bolts” begin their season in São Paulo, Brazil in a divisional clash with the Chiefs, while the Rams will head to London in October to play the Jaguars.
Being teams from the West Coast slated to play games against the NFC East – as the Chargers are – and NFC South – as the Rams are – also adds some extra miles.
Meanwhile, the Bengals are the only team set to travel fewer than 10,000 miles this year. The furthest west they have to travel is Denver for a Week 4 “Monday Night Football” meeting against the Broncos. The remainder of their away games are in the Midwest (vs. NFC North teams) and along the East Coast (against AFC East teams).
Bookies.com Senior Betting Analyst Bill Speros also clarified these numbers are totals for roundtrip flights – to and from each game’s destination.