The Green Bay Packers’ 17th Game Will Be Against The Kansas City Chiefs


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Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes are two of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks.

They star together in a television commercial.

And for the first time, they’ll meet on the football field.

The NFL is expected to expand the regular season to 17 games this season. If and when that happens, the marquee matchup will be Green Bay at Kansas City, which will feature Rodgers vs. Mahomes.

When the Packers and Chiefs met in 2019, Mahomes missed the game with a knee injury. Green Bay won that night in Kansas City, 31-24.

According to Warren Sharp, who does predictive NFL analytics, the schedule for the 17th game will be as follows:

• Green Bay at Kansas City

• Chicago at Las Vegas

• Minnesota at Los Angeles Chargers

• Detroit at Denver

• Washington Football Team at Buffalo

• New York Giants at Miami

• Dallas at New England

• Philadelphia at New York Jets

• New Orleans at Tennessee

• Tampa Bay at Indianapolis

• Carolina at Houston

• Atlanta at Jacksonville

• Seattle at Pittsburgh

• Los Angeles Rams at Baltimore

• Arizona at Cleveland

• San Francisco at Cincinnati

To maintain competitive balance, the AFC will be host the NFC in all 16 crossover games this year. The NFC will be the host conference in 2022, and the two leagues will flip-flop moving forward.

This year, the NFC North will face the AFC West, the NFC East faces the AFC East, the NFC South meets the AFC South and the NFC West plays the AFC North.

Teams are lined up based on their divisional finish in 2020. So for example, the Packers and Chiefs both were first in their division last year, so they’ll play each other.

The Chiefs have been to consecutive Super Bowls, winning the championship in 2019 and losing to Tampa Bay in 2020. Green Bay has been to back-to-back NFC Championship Games, but lost both times.

With Kansas City now on the docket, Green Bay’s 2021 schedule will be as follows:

Home: Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, Cleveland, Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Washington

Away: Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, Arizona, Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, San Francisco, Kansas City.

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