The NFL would like to increase inventory, as evidenced by the expansion of the regular season from 16 to 17 games in 2021. At some point, 18 games will arrive. The next step would be expansion.
And that’s the step the league should not take, for one important reason. There aren’t enough good quarterbacks to go around for 32 teams.
There aren’t enough good quarterbacks to go around in part because there aren’t enough healthy quarterbacks. There aren’t enough healthy quarterbacks even though the league is bending over backwards to protect them, from aggressively flagging roughing the passer to not aggressively penalizing intentional grounding to not calling offensive holding as often as it happens, to allowing tackles to get a slight head start as they prepare to keep the quarterback from getting hit.
Expansion should be off the table for the NFL, indefinitely - NBC Sports