The NFL brought the 16-game era to a close at the end of March when the owners voted to adopt a 17-game schedule starting with the 2021 season.
Playing 16 games served the NFL well from 1978 through 2020, but the lure of additional television revenue proved too much to resist for the league’s owners, so more football for everyone carried the day.
The move to expand the schedule for the first time in 43 years led Kendall Baker from Axios to break down how each of the league’s 32 teams did, based on winning percentage, while playing 16 games.