Will the NFL regular season be extended to 18 games in future? A star quarterback attaches conditions to this plan.

NFL boss Roger Goodell recently admitted publicly that league officials are considering restructuring the regular season.

It is possible to increase the number of games in the regular season from 17 to 18.

One of the first to comment publicly on this plan was Joe Burrow. However, the star quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals does not necessarily want just one more game for each team.

Instead, he also advocates another bye week to ease the burden on teams and players.

“You could do it in such a way that the existing bye week is retained, but then another one is added later, with all teams taking a break at the same time,” said Burrow via “WLWT”.

His suggestion: The NFL could take an example from the NBA.

“You could have Pro Bowl week there, like All-Star Weekend in the NBA,” the signal caller advised. “People get a lot of money to discuss something like that and make decisions. We’ll see what comes of it.”

Since 1951, the NBA has held its All-Star Game, which, along with other events, is traditionally scheduled for an entire weekend with no regular-season games taking place at the same time.

In the NFL, this All-Star weekend – i.e. the Pro Bowl – always takes place in the postseason, one week before the Super Bowl. It is therefore not a bye week, as only two teams are still in the running at this point.

Burrow: “18 games is a challenge “

“Eighteen games is definitely a big challenge,” explained Burrow. “It’s not easy. An extra game would obviously be great for revenue. But I feel like with an 18-game season, the bye week would be very important for our bodies.”

Burrow explains that the number of games without a break in particular is a big problem.

“If you keep the first week off – some teams have the first weekend off in week five or six – and then you play 12, 13 games in a row? That’s not easy. There’s probably a Thursday night game on top of that. That’s never easy. So those two byes would be pretty important. “