2016 NFL Season

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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.

[edit] Player movements and retirements

[edit] Free agency

[edit] Trades

[edit] 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.

[edit] Notable retirements

[edit] Preseason

[edit] 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:

[edit] In-season scheduling changes

[edit] Regular season standings

[edit] Division

[edit] Conference

Template:2016 AFC Standings Template:2016 NFC Standings

[edit] Postseason

Main article: 2016–17 NFL playoffs

[edit] Playoff-clinching scenarios for Week 16

[edit] Playoff-clinching scenarios for Week 17

Note: Scenarios involving ties are omitted for simplicity.

AFC

NFC

• The winner of the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions game will win the NFC North.

[edit] Clinched playoff berth

• Week 13: Dallas Cowboys
• Week 15: New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks
• Week 16: Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers

[edit] Clinched division title

• Week 15: New England Patriots (AFC East), Seattle Seahawks (NFC West)
• Week 16: Atlanta Falcons (NFC South), Dallas Cowboys (NFC East), Houston Texans (AFC South), Pittsburgh Steelers (AFC North)

[edit] Clinched first round bye

• Week 15: New England Patriots
• Week 16: Dallas Cowboys

[edit] Clinched homefield advantage throughout the playoffs

• Week 16: Dallas Cowboys

[edit] Eliminated from postseason contention

• Week 11: Cleveland Browns
• Week 12: San Francisco 49ers
• Week 13: Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets
• Week 14: Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams
• Week 15: Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers
• Week 16: Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans

[edit] Playoffs bracket

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• 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

[edit] Notable events

[edit] Deflategate

[edit] 2016 deaths

[edit] Dennis Green

[edit] Buddy Ryan

[edit] Other notable deaths

[edit] National anthem protests

Main article: 2016 U.S. national anthem protests

[edit] Rule changes

[edit] Records, milestones, and notable statistics

[edit] Head coach/front office personnel changes

[edit] Head coach

[edit] Offseason

[edit] In-season

[edit] Front office

[edit] Offseason

[edit] Awards

[edit] Players of the week/month

[edit] Stadiums

[edit] Atlanta Falcons

[edit] Minnesota Vikings

[edit] Relocation of the Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles

Main article: History of the National Football League in Los Angeles

[edit] Rams bid for Los Angeles

Main article: City of Champions Stadium

[edit] Raiders and Chargers failed stadium bid

Main article: Carson Stadium

[edit] Naming rights agreements

[edit] Buffalo Bills

[edit] Miami Dolphins

[edit] Oakland Raiders

[edit] Field surface changes

[edit] Baltimore Ravens

[edit] New uniforms and patches

[edit] Media

[edit] Television viewers and ratings

[edit] Most watched regular season games

• DH = doubleheader; SNF = NBC Sunday Night Football

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The Oilers received approval to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee in 1997, but elected to play at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis for one season while the Nashville venue now known as Nissan Stadium was under construction.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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