2018 NFL season - wikipedia 2018 NFL season 2018 National Football League season Regular season Duration September 6, 2018 ( 2018 - 09 - 06 ) - December 30, 2018 ( 2018 - 12 - 30 ) Playoffs Start date January 5, 2019 Super Bowl LIII Date February 3, 2019 Site Mercedes - Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia Pro Bowl Date January 27, 2019 ← 2017 NFL seasons The 2018 NFL season will be the 99th season of the National Football League ( NFL ). The season is set begin on September 6, 2018 with the NFL Kickoff Game, likely to be hosted by the defending Super Bowl LII champion. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LIII, the league 's championship game, on February 3, 2019 at Mercedes - Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Contents 1 Preseason 2 Regular season 3 Head coaching and front office personnel changes 3.1 Head coaches 3.1. 1 Offseason 3.2 Front office personnel 3.2. 1 Offseason 4 Stadiums 4.1 Carolina Panthers 4.2 Oakland Raiders 5 Media 5.1 Broadcast Rights 5.1. 1 Television 5.1. 2 Digital 5.1. 3 Radio 6 References Preseason This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2018 ) Training Camps for the 2018 season will be held in late July through August. Teams start training camp no earlier than 15 days before the team 's first scheduled preseason game. The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, with teams to be announced, will be played on Thursday, August 2 ; it will be televised nationally by NBC. Regular season The 2018 regular season 's 256 games will played over a 17 - week schedule which will begin on September 6. Each of the league 's 32 teams plays a 16 - game schedule, with one bye week for each team. The slate also features games on Monday Nights. There are games played on Thursday, including the National Football League Kickoff game in prime time on September 6 and games on Thanksgiving Day. The regular season will conclude with a full slate games of 16 games on December 30, all of which will be intra-division matchups, as it has been since 2010. Scheduling formula Under the NFL 's current scheduling formula, each teams plays the other three teams in its 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 team 's in the team 's own conference in the divisions the team was not set to play which 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 its conference that also finished first in its respective division ). The preset division pairings for 2018 will be as follows. Intra-conference AFC East vs AFC South AFC West vs AFC North NFC East vs NFC South NFC West vs NFC North Inter-conference AFC East vs NFC North AFC North vs NFC South AFC South vs NFC East AFC West vs NFC West The entire schedule will be released in April 2018. Highlights of the 2018 season include : NFL International Series : NFL London Games : Three games will be played in London in 2018. This will be the first season of a 10 - year agreement to play at least one game per season at the new Tottenham Stadium, where the Oakland Raiders will host the Seattle Seahawks on October 14. Two more games will be played at Wembley Stadium, with the Jacksonville Jaguars hosting the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers hosting the Tennessee Titans. These two games will be played October 21 and 28, with the order to be determined when the rest of the 2018 schedule is announced. This will be the first time the London games will be played on three consecutive weeks, a move the league has taken to try to streamline their London operations. NFL Mexico Game : The NFL will host a game at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City in 2018. In November 2017, the league announced an agreement to play one game at that venue each year through 2021. The Los Angeles Rams, who have an agreement to play one game internationally until Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park is completed but were not selected for any of the London Games, are the likely home team, with the date and opponent not yet determined. Head coaching and front office personnel changes Head coaches Offseason Team 2017 head coach 2017 interim 2018 replacement Reason for leaving Story / accomplishments Arizona Cardinals Bruce Arians Steve Wilks Retired Arians retired from coaching after the final game of the 2017 season, finishing the season with a record of 8 -- 8 (. 500 ) and a cumulative record of 49 -- 30 -- 1 (. 619 ) with two playoff appearances. Wilks was hired on January 22, after serving as a defensive coach for Chicago, San Diego, and Carolina since 2006. It will be his first head coaching job. Chicago Bears John Fox Matt Nagy Fired Fox was fired after the final game of the 2017 season, finishing the season with a record of 5 -- 11 (. 313 ) and a cumulative record of 14 -- 34 (. 292 ) with no playoff appearances. Nagy had previously spent the past five seasons as an offensive assistant with the Kansas City Chiefs, the last two as offensive coordinator ; the Bears hired Nagy on January 8 and this will be his first NFL head coaching job. Detroit Lions Jim Caldwell TBA Caldwell was fired after the final game of the 2017 season, less than a year after he signed an extension, finishing the season with a record of 9 -- 7 (. 563 ) and a cumulative record of 36 -- 28 (. 563 ) with two playoff appearances, but having never won a playoff game as head coach of the Lions. Indianapolis Colts Chuck Pagano TBA Pagano was fired after the final game of the 2017 season, finishing the season with a record of 4 -- 12 (. 250 ), his first losing season as Colts ' head coach, and a cumulative record of 53 -- 43 (. 552 ) with three playoff appearances. New York Giants Ben McAdoo Steve Spagnuolo Pat Shurmur McAdoo became the Giants ' head coach in 2016, leading the Giants to a 13 -- 15 (. 464 ) record over the course of parts of two seasons with one playoff appearance. After accruing a 2 -- 10 (. 167 ) record and benching popular starter Eli Manning ( who at the time held the longest active streak as a starting NFL quarterback ) during the season, he was fired on December 4, 2017, and replaced in the interim by defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, who was previously the St. Louis Rams ' head coach from 2009 to 2011. Schurmur was announced as the Giants ' new head coach on January 22. He had previously served as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 2011 -- 2012, compiling a record of 9 -- 23 (. 281 ), and an offensive coach for Philadelphia and Minnesota since 2013. Oakland Raiders Jack Del Rio Jon Gruden After receiving four - year contract extension in February, Del Rio was fired after the final game of the 2017 season, finishing the season with a record of 6 -- 10 (. 375 ) and a cumulative record of 25 -- 24 (. 510 ) with one playoff appearance. Gruden, who previously coached the Raiders from 1998 to 2001, confirmed on - air on January 6, that he would be returning to the team as coach. He had spent the previous nine seasons as on - air analyst for Monday Night Football. Tennessee Titans Mike Mularkey Mike Vrabel Mutual decision Mularkey and the Titans agreed to part ways after they `` could n't come to an agreement over the future, '' two days after the Titans ' playoff loss to the Patriots. Mularkey had a cumulative record of 20 -- 21 (. 488 ) with one playoff appearance in parts of three seasons with the Titans and guided Tennessee to back - to - back 9 -- 7 records in his two years as the team 's full - time head coach. Vrabel had previously spent the past three seasons as an defensive assistant with the Houston Texans, the last as defensive coordinator ; the Titans hired Vrabel on January 20 and this will be his first NFL head coaching job. Front office personnel Offseason Team Position 2017 office holder 2017 interim 2018 replacement Reason for leaving Notes Cleveland Browns VP / GM Sashi Brown John Dorsey Fired Sashi Brown was fired from the organization on December 7, 2017. He had been the team 's attorney since 2013 and de facto general manager since 2016. John Dorsey was named the new general manager of the team hours later. Green Bay Packers GM Ted Thompson Brian Gutekunst Reassigned Thompson, who had been the team 's general manager since 2005, became the team 's senior advisor to football operations. Brian Gutekunst, who had been the team 's director of player personnel since 2016, was promoted to become the team 's new general manager on January 7. Houston Texans GM Rick Smith Brian Gaine Medical leave Smith announced that he would take a leave of absence to care for his wife, who is battling breast cancer. He will remain Executive Vice President of Football Operations. Former Buffalo Bills ' vice president of player personnel, Brian Gaine, was named the new general manager on January 13, 2018. Previously, Gaine was Texans ' director of pro personnel and then director of player personnel from 2014 to 2016. New York Giants GM Jerry Reese Kevin Abrams Dave Gettleman Fired Having been in the organization since 1994, Reese was the Giants ' general manager since 2007, leading them to two Super Bowl championships and several years of success. He was fired on December 4 along with head coach Ben McAdoo. He was replaced in the interim by former Detroit Lions cornerback Kevin Abrams, who has no previous front office experience. Dave Gettleman, previously general manager of the Carolina Panthers and a 14 - year veteran of the Giants ' front office ( from 1999 to 2012 ), was hired on December 28, 2017. Stadiums Two teams, the Oakland Raiders and Carolina Panthers, are entering the final year of their lease agreements with their current stadium. Carolina Panthers On December 17, 2017, Jerry Richardson, the Panthers ' founding owner, announced he was putting the team up for sale. Richardson had previously indicated the team would be put up for sale after his death ( since his only living son left the team in 2009 ), but an exposé in Sports Illustrated accused Richardson of paying hush money to cover up questionable conduct, including racial slurs and sexually suggestive requests of employees, hastening Richardson 's decision. The Panthers ' lease on Bank of America Stadium expires after the 2018 season, which would allow any incoming owner to relocate the team out of the Carolinas to another market of their choice if they so desired, only being liable for the remaining debt from stadium renovations, which at an estimated $35 million would be a small expense compared to the relocation fee the NFL could charge, depending on the size of the market to which the team would relocate. Jon Bon Jovi, on a January 17, 2018 interview on The Howard Stern Show, announced he had no interest in bidding on the Panthers. Bon Jovi had previously submitted an unsuccessful bid for the Buffalo Bills with a Toronto - based consortium in 2014 and, in the Stern interview, blamed rival bidder Donald Trump for ginning up opposition to the Bills bid. Oakland Raiders Main article : Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas The Raiders, prior to the 2017 season, committed to relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada as the Las Vegas Raiders once a new stadium is constructed for them in 2020. In 2016, the Raiders signed a three - year extension with the Oakland Coliseum. The Raiders could choose to stay in the Oakland Coliseum for 2019 with another year - to - year extension ( as they did in 2014 and 2015 ) or move to Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, which is undersized but ( because of the Los Angeles Chargers ' use of the even smaller StubHub Center ) would not be the smallest stadium in the NFL. Raiders owner Mark Davis would like to begin playing games in Sam Boyd Stadium, at least for the preseason, as soon as 2018. Media Broadcast rights Television This will be the fifth year under the current broadcast contracts with ESPN, CBS, Fox, and NBC. This includes `` cross-flexing '' ( switching ) Sunday Afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season ( regardless of the conference of the visiting team ). NBC will continue to air Sunday Night Football, the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN will continue to air Monday Night Football and the Pro Bowl. CBS will also serve as the broadcaster of Super Bowl LIII. The Thursday Night Football contract will once again be placed up for bids after four years with CBS and two years with NBC. As in previous years, in accordance with NFL Network 's retransmission consent agreements with cable providers, seven games ( including Thursday night games and Saturday NFL Network Specials ) will be exclusive to NFL Network, while the exact number of games in the overall package could shrink dramatically, from the maximum 18 games from the previous season to as few as 11, depending on the bids offered. ABC, whose current NFL rights only consist of one playoff game and the Pro Bowl, both of which air in simulcast with ESPN, is expected to place a bid on the package, which if successful would return the network to regular season NFL coverage after a twelve - season absence. Both Fox and current co-holder CBS have expressed reluctance to bid on the package out of fear it dilutes their Sunday afternoon games. Digital After several years in which Verizon held exclusive rights to carry NFL Internet broadcasts on mobile devices 7 inches ( 18 cm ) or less in size ( opting to only make them available to its own wireless subscribers ), the 2018 season will be the first in which any device will be allowed to access those broadcasts. Verizon will still hold rights to stream all nationally televised games, as well as in - market Sunday afternoon games ; instead of only distributing them to its own subscribers, its numerous Internet brands ( such as Yahoo !, which exclusively carried two International Series games in 2015 and 2017, along with AOL, go90, complex.com ) will carry the games to all devices. Radio Both of the NFL 's national radio contracts, Westwood One for English language and Entravision for Spanish language, expired after the 2017 season. 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Question: when does the nfl regular season start 2018
Answer: September 6, 2018