2023 NFL season

Quarterbacks (Cleveland to Washington), Derek Carr (Las Vegas to New Orleans), Andy Dalton (New Orleans to Carolina), Jimmy Garoppolo (San Francisco to Las Vegas), Taylor Heinicke (Washington to Atlanta), and Baker Mayfield (Los Angeles Rams to Tampa Bay)

Jacoby Brissett

Running backs (Minnesota to New York Jets), Ezekiel Elliott (Dallas to New England), Melvin Gordon (Kansas City to Baltimore), Damien Harris (New England to Buffalo), David Montgomery (Chicago to Detroit), Latavius Murray (Denver to Buffalo), Miles Sanders (Philadelphia to Carolina), Devin Singletary (Buffalo to Houston), and Jamaal Williams (Detroit to New Orleans)

Dalvin Cook

Wide receivers (New England to Baltimore), Odell Beckham Jr. (Los Angeles Rams to Baltimore), D. J. Chark (Detroit to Carolina), DeAndre Hopkins (Arizona to Tennessee), Allen Lazard (Green Bay to New York Jets), Jakobi Meyers (New England to Las Vegas), JuJu Smith-Schuster (Kansas City to New England), Adam Thielen (Minnesota to Carolina), and Robert Woods (Tennessee to Houston)

Nelson Agholor

Tight ends (Miami to New England), Austin Hooper (Tennessee to Las Vegas), Hayden Hurst (Cincinnati to Carolina), Dalton Schultz (Dallas to Houston), and Robert Tonyan (Green Bay to Chicago)

Mike Gesicki

Offensive linemen (Kansas City to Cincinnati), Nate Davis (Tennessee to Chicago), Mike McGlinchey (San Francisco to Denver), Connor McGovern (Dallas to Buffalo), Ben Powers (Baltimore to Denver), Donovan Smith (Tampa Bay to Kansas City), Jawaan Taylor (Jacksonville to Kansas City), and Andrew Wylie (Kansas City to Washington)

Orlando Brown Jr.

Defensive linemen (Arizona to Denver), Calais Campbell (Baltimore to Atlanta), Marcus Davenport (New Orleans to Minnesota), Javon Hargrave (Philadelphia to San Francisco), Dre'Mont Jones (Denver to Seattle), Yannick Ngakoue (Indianapolis to Chicago), David Onyemata (New Orleans to Atlanta), and Dalvin Tomlinson (Minnesota to Cleveland)

Zach Allen

Linebackers (Kansas City to Denver), Tremaine Edmunds (Buffalo to Chicago), T. J. Edwards (Philadelphia to Chicago), Leonard Floyd (Los Angeles Rams to Buffalo), Eric Kendricks (Minnesota to Los Angeles Chargers), and Bobby Wagner (Los Angeles Rams to Seattle)

Frank Clark

Defensive backs (Green Bay to New York Jets), Jessie Bates (Cincinnati to Atlanta), C. J. Gardner-Johnson (Philadelphia to Detroit), Byron Murphy (Arizona to Minnesota), Marcus Peters (Baltimore to Las Vegas), Patrick Peterson (Minnesota to Pittsburgh), Cameron Sutton (Pittsburgh to Detroit), Juan Thornhill (Kansas City to Cleveland), and Jimmie Ward (San Francisco to Houston)

Adrian Amos

Kickers (Los Angeles Rams to Indianapolis) and Brandon McManus (Denver to Jacksonville)

Matt Gay

Punters (New England to Miami) and Riley Dixon (Los Angeles Rams to Denver)

Jake Bailey

Kansas City Chiefs co-owner (minority) since 2006, widow of Chiefs and American Football League founder Lamar Hunt and mother of Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt. Won two Super Bowls (LIV and LVII) as co-owner. She died on June 4, age 85.^[77]

Norma Hunt

The was modified to allow the number 0 to be worn by all positions currently allowed to wear single-digit numbers. Placekickers and punters are now allowed to wear numbers 0–49 and 90–99. Previously 0 was not permitted to be used after the jersey numbering system was standardized in 1973 and kickers and punters could only wear numbers 1–19.

jersey numbering system

Timing rules were modified after a ruling on the field is reversed. If outside the two-minute warning, the play clock will be set to 40 seconds instead of 25. If inside the two minute warning and a 10-second runoff is used, the play clock would be set to 30 seconds.

Plays resulting in a turnover on downs were added to the list of booth reviewable plays (not challengeable by coaches). Plays resulting in a successful first down are still challengeable outside of the two minute warning.

Tripping was upgraded to a personal foul (15 yards) from its current 10 yard penalty, reverting a rule change from .

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Launching from one foot to attack an opponent became illegal, changing the current rule of both feet.

Illegally handing the ball forward behind the line of scrimmage (such as a quarterback handing the ball forward to an offensive lineman to avoid a sack) is now a loss of down, consistent with the same foul occurring beyond the line of scrimmage.

All illegal kicks (beyond the line of scrimmage or after the ball returns behind the line) are now penalized the same as an illegal forward pass (five yards and loss of down).

If the offense commits a live-ball penalty and the defense commits a dead-ball penalty on the last play of either half, the period will not be extended for an untimed down.

Language referring to "butt, ram, or spear" with the helmet was combined under the umbrella of "impermissible uses of the helmet" and clarified legal incidental contact.

: The 2023 season began with the Kickoff Game on September 7 in primetime, with Detroit defeating defending Super Bowl LVII champion Kansas City.^[86][87]

NFL Kickoff Game

: On May 10, the league announced a five-game international slate for 2023. Three games were played in London, England: Atlanta at Jacksonville at Wembley Stadium (marking the second year under a three-year deal in which Jacksonville will host a game at Wembley), on October 1,^[88] Jacksonville at Buffalo on October 8 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and Baltimore at Tennessee on October 15 at Tottenham. The league also staged two games at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany, that marked the NFL's first games in the city: Miami at Kansas City on November 5 and Indianapolis at New England on November 12. All games were scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET starts.^[89] Jacksonville (twice), Baltimore, Kansas City, and Indianapolis won the games.

NFL International Series

: Three games were played on Thursday, November 23, with Green Bay at Detroit and Washington at Dallas in the traditional afternoon doubleheader, and San Francisco at Seattle in the nightcap. As part of a new media agreement with Amazon Prime Video, this will be the first season that a game will be scheduled on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving:^[90] Miami at the New York Jets.^[91] Green Bay,^[92] Dallas,^[93] San Francisco,^[94] and Miami^[95] all won.

Thanksgiving

: Christmas Day, December 25, landed on a Monday. While the normal Sunday afternoon slate of games were played on Christmas Eve, usual Sunday night broadcaster NBC decided to broadcast a game on Saturday afternoon prior to the game on December 23 therefore the Sunday night game (New England at Denver) aired on NFL Network instead.^[96] Three games were scheduled for Christmas Day: Las Vegas at Kansas City, the New York Giants at Philadelphia, and the regular Monday Night Football game: Baltimore at San Francisco.^{[97][98][99][100]}

Christmas

set the record for most games with at least 200 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns, with three. He shared the previous record of two with nine other players.^[115]

Tyreek Hill

On April 13, announced the team and FirstEnergy Corp agreed to end their stadium naming rights agreement following the company's involvement in the Ohio nuclear bribery scandal. FirstEnergy Stadium returned to its original name, Cleveland Browns Stadium, which was used from 1999 to 2012.^[246] The naming-rights agreement was set to expire in 2029.^[247]

Cleveland

On June 23, announced that TIAA Bank Field, the team's home stadium, would be renamed EverBank Stadium prior to the start of the season following a rebrand of the bank.^[248]

Jacksonville

Flexible scheduling has been expanded to include Monday Night Football, and increase the amount of "cross-flexing" (switching) Sunday afternoon games between CBS and Fox. When the initial schedule was created, CBS and Fox were able to specify a limited amount of games involving teams from their respective conference that they want to air, but otherwise the league would be free to schedule games regardless of conference. CBS and Fox would then also be able to protect one game each per week from getting flexed into another network (see above).^{[108][103][304]}

§ Changes to flexible scheduling rules

There was three weeks featuring two Monday Night Football games split between ABC and ESPN, expanding from one in the 2022 season.^[304]

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NBC exclusively streamed one national regular season game on Peacock per season. Like other games exclusively on cable or streamed online, it was also made available on over-the-air television stations in each participating team's local market and also be made available for business establishments via Peacock Sports Pass on EverPass Media.^{[304][303][306][307]}

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Fox aired national as the schedule permits.^[308][309]

Christmas Day games