So goes the woes of being a West Coast team in the NFL: The Los Angeles Chargers will travel a stunning amount on the NFL schedule next season.

Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers will need to make four trips to the East Coast in 2026, racking up mileage and needing to overcome the hurdles of timezone-hopping in the process.

No easy task for most teams. But…this is Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers.

Based on the last few years, the Chargers probably laughed off the mileage counter ahead of the NFL schedule release.

NFL miles traveled at schedule release hits Chargers

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Things sound bad for the Chargers at first glance on the mileage front.

Bill Speros of Bookies did the numbers on each team’s miles traveled in 2026 and came up with 24,816 for the Chargers, good for the seventh-most mileage in the NFL.

But it’s not a big deal.

Recall that these Chargers hopped 42 time zones last year, an NFL record.

Recall that they made NFL history by traveling 37,086 miles last year.…