NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and ESPN’s Adam Schefter go scoop for scoop, with the difference between winning and losing often being a matter of seconds.

In April, ESPN and the NFL Network will be under the same Disney umbrella — Rapoport and Schefter will be teammates. How long that lasts is still to be determined, as Rapoport’s contract is up in May.

“If we were to work together, I think that would be awesome,” Rapoport told The Athletic, while confirming his current contract’s end date. “I have no idea if it is going to happen. But it would be like The Avengers.”

A little corporate synergy reference never hurt Disney negotiations, though the next film in the Avengers series is titled “Doomsday.”

The Schefter-Rapoport dynamic is one of the sidelights in the recently approved deal that gave the league a 10 percent stake in ESPN for a variety of the league’s media assets, including NFL Network.

While Schefter and Rapoport engage in an almost daily post-off to be first on X, there is more to their jobs. The analogy that probably best describes how NFL Network is expected to live in an ESPN universe is the SEC Network. ESPN’s most popular subject will continue to be the NFL, but if you want non-stop coverage of the league, NFL Network will be available. Ultimately, between the two networks, there is going to be no shortage of on-air hits for the top insiders.

What ESPN executives are going to do about the expanded NFL reporting staff is still to be determined.

“Just so we are clear, I don’t know what is coming,” Rapoport said. “No one has told me, ‘It’s going to be like this. It’s going to be like that.’ There are a lot of things I don’t know. A lot of people don’t know, but I’m excited because ESPN is very good at what it does. From my understanding, it is going to be more football, more coverage, investing in NFL Network and making it as best as it could possibly be.

“If it is anything like ESPN and SEC Network, that would be great. SEC Network is awesome. ESPN’s coverage of college football is enhanced by it. If that is sort of the way it is, then I think that would be, that would be great. I don’t know what I’ll end up doing.”

ESPN has a lot of NFL insiders and analysts, but Schefter is the clear leader on news. When Schefter joined ESPN from NFL Network in 2009, he did so as No. 1 and No. 1A with Chris Mortensen. Mortensen warmly welcomed Schefter, and the duo worked side by side, even on its premier pregame show, “NFL Sunday Countdown.”

Schefter, 59, and Rapoport, 46, could conceivably recreate this setup, though, both trying to beat each other by seconds for transactional news would have likely have to be put to the side.

“If it’s me doing similar things that I do now, under the same umbrella, that would be great,” Rapoport said. “If it is working with Schefter, (that works, too.) No one has told me that’s going to be the way it is. Remember, I grew up watching Schefter and Mort dominate the news. Obviously, I’ve been watching Adam for a long time. He is the reason my job exists, just to be totally honest, in the form it does. That is something that is not lost on me. I wouldn’t have this job the way I do if he didn’t sort of create it.”