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Who are the oldest and youngest players in the 2024 NFL season?
For the second year running, the same two players will be the league’s eldest statesmen when the 2024 NFL season begins.
After the final 53-man cutdowns, it has been revealed that the Green Bay Packers have the youngest team in the NFL 2024 season, with an average age of just 25 years, 7 months and 25 days. By contrast, the Buffalo Bills possess the oldest roster in the league this year, with an average age of 27 years, 5 months and 29 days, just ahead of the Carolina Panthers at 27 years, 5 months and 20 days.
Oldest NFL players in 2024
For the second year in succession, the two same players will be the league’s oldest when the season gets up and running in Week 1.
The New York Jets’ Aaron Rodgers (40 years, 9 months and 4 days), who suffered a season-ending injury in his very first game for the team against the Bills in 2023, is fit again and tops the list. The quarterback is one of two 40-year-olds starting this season’s NFL, the other being Chicago Bears tight end Marcedes Lewis (40 years, 3 months and 18 days).
Nick Folk of the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts’ Joe Flacco will both turn 40 before the end of the season.
Despite Rodgers’ advancing years, in NFL terms, he remains significantly younger than Tom Brady was when he started the 2022 season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (45 years, 1 month and 9 days).
Youngest NFL players in 2024
The NFL has a good mix of players belonging to different age groups. Although there are many players who are over 35 years old, there are also plenty who are below 25 years old and considered the youngest in the league.
Drake Maye and Marvin Harrison Jr., picked third and fourth by the Patriots and the Cardinals in the 2024 NFL Draft respectively, have only just turned 22, while there are a host of 21-year-olds on rosters across the country, including Joe Alt, Cam Little, Malik Nabers, Keon Coleman and Calen Bullock.
However, three 20-year-olds (literally half Rodgers and Lewis’ age) will begin the new season.
Denver Broncos running back Audric Estimé turns 21 on Friday, the day after the opening game, while Braelon Allen of the New York Jets and the Las Vegas Raiders’ Jackson Powers-Johnson have to wait until early next year to do so.
Powers-Johnson, a rookie guard, was born three days later than Allen in January 2004, which makes him the youngest player on any of the 16 NFL rosters this season.