Once upon a time, most NFL teams held their training camps away from home.
But in the 2000s, teams began trending away from traveling for camp. In 2000, 21 of the league’s 31 teams (68%) went out of town for their summer practice sessions. By 2021 — the season after every team held training camp at their practice facilities as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic — just six of 32 teams (19%) held training camp away from home.
In 2024, that number is up to eight. Starting this week, the Kansas City Chiefs will once again hold camp at Missouri Western State University in St.