2016 NFL Season

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2016 National Football League season
Regular season
Duration September 8, 2016–January 1, 2017
Playoffs
Start date January 7, 2017
Super Bowl LI
Date February 5, 2017
Site NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
Pro Brawl
Date January 29, 2017
Site Camping World Stadium, Orlando, Florida
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The 2016 NFL season, the 97th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL), began on September 8, 2016, with the defending Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos defeating the Carolina Panthers 21–20 in the NFL Kickoff Game. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LI, the league's championship game, on February 5, 2017, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. For the first time since the Houston Oilers relocated to Tennessee in 1997,[1] an NFL team relocated to another state, as the former St. Louis Rams moved out of St. Louis, Missouri and returned to Los Angeles, its home from 1946 to 1994.

Contents

Player movements and retirements

Free agency

Trades

Draft

Details: 2016 NFL Draft

The 2016 NFL Draft was held between April 28 − April 30, 2016 in Chicago. By way of a trade with the Tennessee Titans, the Los Angeles Rams held the first overall pick and selected QB Jared Goff.

Notable retirements

Preseason

Regular season

The 2016 regular season will feature 256 games to be played out over a seventeen-week schedule which begins on Thursday, September 8, 2016. Each of the league's 32 teams will play a 16-game schedule, with one bye week for each team scheduled between weeks four and eleven. The slate will also feature games on Monday night. There will be games played on Thursday, including the National Football League Kickoff game in prime time on September 8 and games on Thanksgiving Day. The regular season concludes with a full slate of 16 games on Sunday, January 1, 2017, all of which are will be intra-divisional matchups, as it has been since 2010.

Scheduling formula

Under the NFL's current scheduling formula, each team plays each of the other three teams in their own division twice. In addition, a team plays against all four teams in one other division from each conference. The final two games on a team's schedule are against the two teams in the team's own conference in the divisions the team was not set to play who finished the previous season in the same rank in their division (e.g. the team which finished first in its division the previous season would play each other team in their conference that also finished first in its respective division). The pre-set division pairings for 2016 will be as follows:

   Intra-conference
AFC North vs. AFC East
AFC South vs. AFC West
NFC North vs. NFC East
NFC South vs. NFC West

   Inter-conference
AFC East vs. NFC West
AFC North vs. NFC East
AFC South vs. NFC North
AFC West vs. NFC South

In-season scheduling changes

Regular season standings

Division

Template:2016 AFC East Standings Template:2016 AFC North Standings Template:2016 AFC South Standings Template:2016 AFC West Standings

Template:2016 NFC East Standings Template:2016 NFC North standings Template:2016 NFC South standings Template:2016 NFC West standings

Conference

Template:2016 AFC Standings Template:2016 NFC Standings

Postseason

Main articl: 2016–17 NFL playoffs

Playoff-clinching scenarios for Week 16

Playoff-clinching scenarios for Week 17

Note: Scenarios involving ties are omitted for simplicity.

AFC


NFC

Clinched playoff berth

Clinched division title

Clinched first round bye

Clinched homefield advantage throughout the playoffs

Eliminated from postseason contention

Playoffs bracket

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Jan 8 – Heinz Field   Jan 15 – Arrowhead Stadium          
  6   Miami   12
  3   Pittsburgh   18
  3   Pittsburgh   30     Jan 22 – Gillette Stadium
  2   Kansas City   16  
See Re-seeding below
AFC
Jan 7 – NRG Stadium   3   Pittsburgh  
Jan 14 – Gillette Stadium
    1   New England    
  5   Oakland   14 AFC Championship
  4   Houston   16
  4   Houston   27   Feb 5 – NRG Stadium
  1   New England   34  
Wild Card Playoffs  
Divisional Playoffs
Jan 7 – CenturyLink Field      
Jan 15 – AT&T Stadium
       
  6   Detroit   6 Super Bowl LI
  4   Green Bay   34
  3   Seattle   26     Jan 22 – Georgia Dome
  1   Dallas   31  
See Re-seeding below
NFC
Jan 8 – Lambeau Field   4   Green Bay  
Jan 14 – Georgia Dome
    2   Atlanta    
  5   NY Giants   13 NFC Championship
  3   Seattle   20
  4   Green Bay   38  
  2   Atlanta   36  
  • Re-seeding: Home field is determined by seeding number, not position on the bracket. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket system. The outcome of the games between the sixth and third seeds in each conference determine where the Wild Card winners will play in the next round. When a third seed wins, they next travel to the second seed. When the sixth seed wins, they travel to the first seed. The winner between the fifth and fourth seeds will play the remaining second round host team in that conference.
  • Conference Championship home field goes to the higher seed remaining.
* Indicates overtime victory

Notable events

Deflategate

2016 deaths

Dennis Green

Buddy Ryan

File:Buddy Ryan in 2011.jpg
Buddy Ryan

Other notable deaths

National anthem protests

Main article: 2016 U.S. National Anthem Protests|2016 U.S. national anthem protests]]

Rule changes

Records, milestones, and notable statistics

Head coach/front office personnel changes

Head coach

Offseason

Team 2015 Head Coach 2015 Interim 2016 Replacement Reason for Leaving Notes

In-season

Team 2016 head coach Rwason for leaving Interim replacement Story/Acomplishments

Front office

Offseason

Team Position 2015 Office Holder 2015 Interim 2016 Replacement Reason for Leaving Notes


Awards

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