The NFL’s team owners have not yet completed a contract extension with commissioner Roger Goodell. But they expect to finalize an extension with him in the coming months to keep him in place to oversee the negotiations for new broadcasting deals and a collective bargaining agreement with players that could include an 18-game season, according to four people familiar with the owners’ views.
Goodell’s current contract expires in March 2027, when he will be 68. He completed a three-year extension with the owners in October 2023.
It’s not clear when this extension will be finalized and, barring last-minute complications, announced. The NFL has scheduled a special owners meeting for Aug. 26 in Atlanta for a potential ratification vote on the proposed $9.612 billion sale of the Seahawks from the estate of late owner Paul G. Allen to a group led by the family of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. After that, the owners have regularly scheduled quarterly meetings in October in New York and in December virtually.
The October meeting could be a reasonable target, given that Goodell’s 2023 extension was announced during an October owners meeting in Manhattan. Whatever the timing, the owners seem convinced that the deal with Goodell will get done.
