Five NFL teams this season will travel more miles than it takes to go around the world.
The Seattle Seahawks will cover the most miles of any NFL team. They are scheduled to traverse 29,446 miles on their eight road trips. The Seahawks will cross a total 34 time zones. That includes nine each way to and from Seattle to Munich, Germany, where they meet the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 13.
The distance around Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles. The other teams traveling a distance greater than "around the world" this season are New Orleans, Jacksonville, Denver, and Miami.
Ahead of the NFL schedule release on May 12, Bookies.com looked at every NFL team's road opponents for the 2022-23 regular season, along with the five international games, to compute the linear miles each team will travel and how many times they cross into a new time zone on each round trip.
The Saints, Jaguars and Broncos have games scheduled in London this year. The Dolphins (25,178 miles and 14 time zones) traverse the most miles of any team not leaving the Continental United States.
The Pittsburgh Steelers will travel the fewest miles of any NFL team this season. The Steelers schedule has the team never leaving the Eastern Time Zone. The team will cover 6,442 miles, or just 21% of the distance traveled by the Seahawks.
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