The 2025 Los Angeles Chargers flew a lot of miles. The most of any team in the NFL, actually, at 37,086 miles. The next closest was the Los Angeles Rams, who flew more than 2,000 miles less than the Chargers did.

That amount of travel will really take its toll on the human body, not to mention the mind and the spirit, of the players and coaches on the team. 

A big part of why they flew so many miles in total last season was the Week 1 game between the Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs in São Paulo, Brazil (a little more than 6,000 miles away from Los Angeles).

Still, you would hope that the Chargers would be rewarded after that season with a lighter travel schedule. You would be wrong.

Here are the nine teams that the Chargers are scheduled to visit on the road this year:

Before I start complaining, props to the schedule makers for making one of the Chargers' nine road games this season be against the Rams. Every player in that game will be able to sleep in his own bed the night before the game and get dressed in his own locker room (both the Rams and Chargers have separate, branded locker rooms at Sofi Stadium). That's an "away game" with zero travel. I love that.

Adding together the other eight road games, the Chargers are set to travel 24,796 total miles in 2026 (not counting preseason or playoff games, of course). That is a ton. That would normally be in the top 5, but that's nothing new for the Chargers.

Here's how it stacks up to previous seasons for the Chargers....

The 2026 numbers are so high because of four separate trips to the east coast to play in Miami, Baltimore, Buffalo and Tampa Bay. Maybe they'll get lucky and the games against the Dolphins and Buccaneers will be on back-to-back weeks and they can just practice in Florida, but we won't know that for a while.

Speaking of which...

Roger Goodell and the NFL owners are trying desperately to tap into international markets. Last season, they hosted 7 international games in 5 different host countries. This season, they are pushing for 8 (or 9) international games

The league is looking to return to the UK, Germany, Spain, Brazil and Mexico, while adding games played in Australia and Paris, France.

I don't want to get into a whole thing about the union, but you would think the players would want less travel after giving in on a 17th regular season game.

Also, there is a strong possibility that one of these Chargers road games ends up getting picked as one (and hopefully only one!) of the international games, which would make the total mileage for the upcoming season that much higher.