As the NFL takes over Detroit this weekend for the draft, commissioner Roger Goodell is also looking at potential changes to the schedule.

Appearing on The Pat McAfee Show, Goodell expressed interest in cutting back on the preseason to add an 18th regular-season game and potentially moving the Super Bowl to coincide with Presidents' Day weekend in mid-February.

From the moment the NFL added a 17th regular-season game in the most recent collective bargaining agreement, it was considered a matter of time before the league got that number up to 18.

Peter King (h/t CBS Sports' Cody Benjamin) wrote in May 2021 that an 18-game season could happen as soon as 2025 or 2026.

In March, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk noted the league's push for 18 games "hasn't been abandoned, health and safety concerns be damned," but talks would likely wait until the league and NFL Players Association start discussing a new CBA.

The current collective bargaining agreement, which was ratified by the NFLPA in March 2020, runs through the 2030 season.

Florio also wrote that Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry said on an episode of PFT Live that multiple teams proposed pushing the trade deadline back by two weeks, with one week being factored in for the current 17-game schedule and the second week to account for the anticipated 18th game.

NFL owners did vote to approve moving the deadline back to midseason, so it will now be the Tuesday after Week 9.

When the league went from 16 to 17 games, one preseason game was dropped from the schedule. Based on Goodell's comment to McAfee, it's safe to assume the preseason schedule would only consist of each team playing two games in an 18-game regular season.

It would only make sense to move the Super Bowl back if the regular season is going to be longer. The game usually takes place on the second Sunday in February.

Presidents' Day falls on the third Monday in February, so this would simply be pushing the Super Bowl back by one week. It would also give fans the chance to enjoy a three-day weekend for the biggest sporting event of the year.