Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has the most diverse passport in the NFL, regardless of his trip to Egypt during mandatory minicamp in 2024 or wherever he goes to do ayahuasca. Rodgers, who didn’t play in a foreign country until 2022, has now started games in England, Ireland, and France.

After Sunday’s 16-10 win over the Saints in Paris, Rodgers told reporters that the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement could have included a full-blown international week, with 16 games in 16 foreign locations.

“The reach of the league is fantastic, and I think I always wanted to be a part of it,” Rodgers said, via Garrett Podell of CBS Sports. “I think it’d have been phenomenal for the game. Now, the owners wanted to push for 17 games for the extra revenue because they care so much about player safety, but it would have been nice.”

Seventeen regular-season games and a full week of international games are not mutually exclusive, on the surface. However, even though Rodgers apparently would have been in favor of a full-blown international week, plenty of players would not be thrilled about playing one game per year in another country every year. (Even though 16 international games seems inevitable in the next CBA.)

Rodgers still wants to see an international week, even as he finishes what he insists will be his final NFL season.

“I think there are great opportunities for expansion in those things,” Rodgers said. “It’d be awesome to see them, you know, have an international week because I think it’s great for the game and the expansion of the game. And I wish there was a mandate, though, from the league [that] they would have to open up their pocketbooks too, and they’re maybe a little tight on money and stuff. I think they should mandate every team coming over Sunday or Monday to really enjoy the culture and the place you’re going. You could do events in those cities and outreach stuff and community work. But they won’t because they’re tight.”

Although Rodgers and I don’t see eye to eye on various subjects, I’ll agree with him wholeheartedly on that point. The league is, to put it kindly, extremely careful with money.

Still, it’s hard to imagine all 16 international games being placed in the same week. The early-morning window for the European games has the potential to become a full-blown broadcast package. Likewise, jamming all 16 international games would limit cities like London to only two games for the season — one at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and one at Wembley Stadium.

Bottom line? Sixteen international games are coming. But it seems unlikely that all 16 international games would be played in the same week.