Patrick Mahomes, Three times Super Bowl champion with Kansas City Chiefsasked the NFL more Rest for players before the proposal to increase the calendar to 18 games.
“The amount of injuries that accumulate at the end of the season has already been seen. If you really want to reach 18 games, something that does not excite me much, There must be a way to add a few weeks of rest so that players have more time to recover “, The most valuable player in the Super Bowl Liv, LVII and LVIII said Friday through the CNBC chain.
Mahomes, considered the best active NFL player, He did not empathize with the proposal last February Roger Goodell did, NFL Commissioner, so that the league calendar has 18 regular season games, instead of 17, and two preseason games, against the three that are played in the present.
The amount of injuries that accumulate at the end of the season has already been seen. If you want to reach 18 games, something that does not excite me, there must be more rest
According to the Chiefs player, Submiting players to a higher game game in the regular season will not allow to see the most outstanding of the 32 teams that make up the NFL at its maximum level towards the end of the campaign.
“I think we should find a way to have more weeks old, more distributed time. More games are hard for the body. It is a lot of physical load that accumulates in the final part of the season, which is also when you want to see the best players in the field, “he said.
Mohamses also referred to the increasing number of matches that the NFL performs outside the United States, Something that said he agrees, but must also be part of adequate programming.
“You have to think about people and players when talking about expanding the sport in any way, but the NFL must continue to plan the physical rest of the players,” he concluded.
For the 2025 NFL season, which starts in September, six international matches are scheduled. In the first, On September 5, the Chiefs will play against the Chargers at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Steelers will be measured to Vikings on September 28 at the Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland. London will house three games. On October 5 will play Browns-Vikings and the 12th of the same month Jets-Broncos, both will be at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Jaguars-Rams will collide on 19 in Wembley.
On November 9 Colts and Falcons will play at the Olympic of Munich. The series will close between Dolphins and Commanders on November 16 at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid.
