{"id":762875,"date":"2026-02-19T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762875\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:07:14","slug":"will-the-49ers-be-at-a-disadvantage-schedule-wise-with-all-of-the-travel-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762875\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the 49ers be at a disadvantage schedule-wise with all of the travel in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When you are on either coast, the odds of you traveling the most miles in the NFL are high. That was the case for the San Francisco 49ers in 2025, as they traveled more than 28,000 miles, amounting to the fifth-most of any team in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trips to New Orleans, New York, Cleveland, Houston, and Indianapolis played a factor in that number. The 49ers will have a pair of international games in 2026. If you thought the domestic trips were taxing, games played in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-schedule\/155997\/the-49ers-are-headed-down-under-to-play-the-rams-next-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne, Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-schedule\/156312\/49ers-to-host-a-regular-season-game-in-mexico-city-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico City<\/a> mean the travel will be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billsperos\/status\/2024191795718947201\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">closer to 38,000 miles<\/a> this upcoming season. Over 15,000 of those miles will be to Australia, while another 3,800 or so will account for Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We don\u2019t know when the games will take place, though the Rams game down under is expected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-schedule\/156163\/49ers-rams-historic-matchup-set-to-take-place-in-week-1-per-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Week 1<\/a>. Here is a look at the travel schedule, per Bill Speros:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 49ers get to play the AFC West, which means trips to Kansas City and Los Angeles as opposed to Houston and Indiana last year. The cross-country trips to Atlanta and New York will come against teams with question marks, especially at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While there\u2019s no getting around a hectic travel schedule early in the season, it\u2019s hard to believe the schedule makers will do anything other than sandwich home games after the long road trips, and possibly even back-to-back home games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The miles and travel feel a bit overblown, but they will make for a good excuse if the 49ers drop a game. I\u2019d argue the late-season primetime scheduling leading up to Week 18 was worse than the Miles argument above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What do you think, does the travel schedule put the 49ers at a disadvantage this upcoming season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you are on either coast, the odds of you traveling the most miles in the NFL are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,11446,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-762875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-schedule","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116098633031630920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}