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NFL finalizes 17th regular season game, Chargers will face Vikings in 2021

The NFL will have 18 weeks of regular season action now.

A 17-game regular season in the NFL has been coming for a while now, and it has finally been made official.

The season will now consist of 272 games (previously 256), with each of the league’s 32 teams playing 17 games during an 18-week period with a standard bye week.

With the added 17th game, the standard four-game preseason has been reduced to three games.

Additionally, given the expansion of the regular season, Super Bowl LVI, which will be played at SoFi Stadium, will now be pushed one week later, from Feb. 6 to Feb. 13, 2022.

So, what does this mean for the Chargers? With the addition of the 17th game, Los Angeles will now serve as host to the Minnesota Vikings to conclude the regular season matchups in 2021.

Click here to see a rundown of the rest of the team’s 2021 opponents.

Saints’ Alvin Kamara blasts 17-game schedule

The NFL will expand to a 17-game regular season and Alvin Kamara of the Saints isn’t thrilled

Word has been out about the NFL going to a 17-game regular season.

News of the change bubbled up Sunday when Adam Schefter tweeted it would become official at the owners’ virtual meetings March 30-31.

The change was not received well by New Orleans Saints star running back Alvin Kamara, who ripped it on Twitter.

“Expletive dumb… as hell,” was Kamara’s feeling about the extra game being added to the 2021 schedule.

Former WR Torrey Smith says the league is going to have to make adjustments and take precautions to help players remain healthy under the longer season.

NFL expected to finalize expanding schedule to 17 games

The NFL is preparing to expand its regular season to 17 games.

The worst-kept secret in professional football is expected to take place this week as the NFL holds its owners’ meetings virtually from March 30-31.

Look for the regular-season schedule to bump up a game from 16 to 17, says Adam Schefter of ESPN.

In December it was revealed what the procedure would be for structuring the extra game.

New scheduling procedures with respect to the 17th regular-season game will “be an interconference match-up based on divisional standings” from the previous campaign, and “on a rotating divisional basis” in a fashion similar to current scheduling standards that annually see one AFC division play an entire NFC division, and so on. This change should mean the football-viewing world will see more marquee matchups across conferences that would traditionally be limited by the annual interconference divisional rotations.

 

Report: Chargers would host Vikings for 17th game in 2021

An extra regular-season game might be added in 2021.

As we are approaching the new league year, one of the changes the NFL is planning to make is adding a 17th regular season game.

The plan was approved but nothing is set in stone yet. If the league does go through with it this upcoming season, the Chargers would host the Vikings at SoFi Stadium to finish the regular season, per Peter King of NBC Sports.

This is subject to change as the league may not add the 17th game to the schedule in 2021.

The schedule has yet to be released and we may not know until the middle of April. Here’s a look at the rest of Los Angeles’ opponents.