Bengals considered schedule winners for travel distance

Hopefully this helps!

The draft is over, the schedule has been released, and now all Cincinnati Bengals fans can do is wait as the offseason slowly progresses.

While we wait, it’s worth noting that CBS Sports’ Tyler Sullivan broke down his schedule-release winners and losers, and he listed the Bengals as winners, though not for a reason you would normally expect.

“Cincinnati’s playoff surge to end last season came up just short, but they are well positioned to get back into the postseason in 2025,” he wrote. “From a travel standpoint, the Bengals have it made. The franchise will travel the fewest miles of any NFL team next season at 8,753 miles. They are the only team in the NFL to travel under 10,000 miles in 2025. For what it’s worth, the Washington Commanders had the fewest miles traveled last year, and they found themselves in the NFC Championship. With that in mind, is a Bengals run to the AFC Championship imminent?!”

The Bengals will open their schedule up on the road in Cleveland, but the furthest west they’ll have to travel is Denver, meaning they’ll never even have to set their watches for Pacific Time. Whether this helps the Bengals throughout the season remains to be seen, but it makes sense that less time cramped into a plane and less time lost to jet lag would be considered beneficial.

Hopefully, it is.