As far as old axioms go, “football is a young man’s game” ranks right up there with ol’ tried and true mantras, such as “defense wins championships” and “games are won in the trenches.”
Though the New England Patriots rostered the oldest team in 2019, the team’s average age was only 1.8 years greater than the NFL’s youngest squad, the Cleveland Browns.
Over the past five seasons, in fact, the average ages of the youngest rosters have ranged from 24.2 years-old to 25.4 years-old, whereas the average ages of the oldest teams over that same stretch have fluctuated between 27 years-old and 27.