Speaking on the Rich Eisen Show, ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio reports the league may propose a rule that limits players to playing in 17 games in order to expand the regular season to 18 games.

20 March 2026

As the league continues to push for an 18th regular-season game, Florio reports “there’s an idea floating around” that would limit every player to a maximum of 17 games to sell the expansion of the regular season. Florio does note that QBs, along with kickers and punters, could end up being exempt from these rules, but this would obviously create an interesting wrinkle for teams and fantasy mangers should this come to fruition. While no deal is imminent for an 18th regular-season contest, the belief is that it will be here sooner rather than later.