2024 NFL season kicks off in 100 days

The start of the 2024 NFL season is 100 days away.

As we move closer to Thursday, Sept. 5, when the Kansas City Chiefs will raise their opening night banner, the countdown to the 2024 campaign is finally set to drop below the triple digits.

NFL schedule makers provided a whopper of a kickoff matchup, pitting Patrick Mahomes‘ Chiefs against Lamar Jackson‘s Baltimore Ravens in a 2023 AFC Championship Game rematch.

Jackson downplayed the significance of facing K.C. to kick off the season last week.

“I really don’t care who we play; it really didn’t matter,” Jackson said, via the team’s official transcript. “At the end of the day, our goal is to make it to the Super Bowl. We lost to them in the playoffs. Just us beating them in the regular season doesn’t really do anything; it just helps us keep stacking up wins to hopefully make it to the playoffs if anything to try to get in that same position again and hopefully be successful. It really doesn’t matter who we play [in the] first game; obviously it’s the Chiefs, but I really didn’t care.”

Every team in the AFC is trying to dethrone the Chiefs. K.C. has made it to the Super Bowl four times in the last five years and has reached at least the conference title game during each of the six seasons Mahomes has been the starting quarterback.

The Chiefs are set to unveil their third Super Bowl banner in five seasons in 100 days. They are striving to make NFL history by becoming the first team to secure three consecutive Lombardi Trophies.