The New York Jets are projected to embark upon a below-average amount of traveling in the 2025 NFL season.
According to a study by Bill Speros, relayed by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Jets are expected to travel approximately 17,486 miles throughout their 2025 schedule. This ranks 19th in the NFL and is over 2,000 miles below the league average (19,561).
(Side note: Let’s use the correct Jets logo, fellas. It’s 2025.)
This is a much lighter load for New York compared to the 2024 season, when they ranked ninth in the league with 22,397 travel miles.
Outside of a trip to London (which saw its date and opponent revealed today), the Jets won’t be going very far throughout the 2025 season. On their 2025 non-division road schedule, they drew two AFC South games (Baltimore and Cincinnati), two NFC South games (New Orleans and Tampa Bay), and one AFC South game (Jacksonville).
Save for the London game and a CST trip to the Big Easy, New York will stay within the Eastern Time Zone this season. The Jets’ 15 EST games will be their most since they played a franchise-record 16 in 2019.
It will mark just the sixth time in franchise history that New York played 15+ games in the Eastern Time Zone. The Jets also played 15 EST games in the 1978, 1981, 1988, and 2013 seasons – Jets fans will be happy to hear New York accrued a combined 33-25-2 record (.567) in EST games across those four seasons.
Do travel miles really matter, though?
No, they do not.
Looking at the 2024 rankings, there was zero correlation between travel miles and regular season record. Five of the top 10 teams finished with a winning record, as did five of the bottom 10. The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles traveled the eighth-most miles. There was no evidence that travel miles affected teams’ performance in any way.
Still, for die-hard Jets fans who like to follow the team across the country, it’s nice to know they can save a few bucks on airline tickets this year.
