Roger Goodell suggests resolution on NFL participation in 2028 Olympics could come soon

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A determination regarding NFL players' information successful the Olympic Games successful 2028 could travel successful the adjacent mates of months, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday.

Speaking astatine the NFL’s yearly outpouring gathering Tuesday, Goodell said involvement successful competing successful the Summer Olympics has been a blistery taxable successful the league, adding a solution connected the contented could travel soon.

Flag shot is 1 of 5 caller sports being introduced astatine the 2028 Olympics successful Los Angeles. (Imagn)

"Well, I’ve heard straight from a batch of players who privation to enactment and correspond their country, whether it’s the United States oregon a state that they came from," helium said. "I deliberation that's thing that we'll proceed to sermon with, not conscionable the union, but besides the clubs. I deliberation some of those are things that we'll astir apt resoluteness sometime successful the adjacent 60 days."

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Flag shot volition debut arsenic an Olympic athletics in Los Angeles successful 2028. Interest from NFL players was astir contiguous aft archetypal being announced successful 2023. Since then, involvement successful the athletics has picked up crossed the country, with some a women’s and men’s tourney to beryllium played astatine the Games.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses the media astatine the NFL's yearly league gathering astatine The Breakers April 1, 2025. (Jim Rassol/Imagn Images)

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"I bash deliberation the Olympics [are] a captious infinitesimal for america successful the emblem improvement connected a planetary basis," Goodell added Tuesday.

"Listen, the Olympics are the pinnacle of planetary sport, and for america to beryllium capable to enactment successful that — to person some men’s and women’s emblem teams participating from astir the satellite — is simply a important infinitesimal for us."