NFL TV Ratings 2025: Week 2 Viewership Delivers Record-Setting Numbers

How many people watch the NFL? The National Football League seems to be as popular as ever, coming off a season that saw a new Super Bowl champion for the first time in three years. With so many great teams around the league, NFL television ratings are dominating the market more than ever before, as football remains the most-watched thing on television.

We’ll be tracking NFL TV ratings throughout the season. Ahead of Week 3, here are the NFL television ratings from Week 1 and Week 2 with games on YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, NBC, FOX, ESPN and CBS. After Week 4, we’ll start tracking the most-watched NFL games in 2025.

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Week 2 NFL TV Ratings: Super Bowl Rematch Draws Big Numbers

After pulling in one of its biggest Week 1 audiences ever, the NFL delivered a slate of Week 2 matchups that included a Super Bowl rematch (Philadelphia Eagles vs Kansas City Chiefs), a Monday Night Football doubleheader (Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Houston Texans and Los Angeles Chargers vs Las Vegas Raiders) and its first Thursday Night Football game of the season (Washington Commanders vs Green Bay Packers).

Here are the NFL television ratings from Week 2.

Notes on Week 2 NFL television ratings

• Thursday Night Football – Amazon Prime Video’s first TNF broadcast of the season averaged 17.76 million viewers, peaking at 20.35 million viewers midway through the game. It was Amazon’s most-watched Thursday Night Football game ever, topping the Lions vs Packers game in 2024.
• Fox Late Afternoon Game: In a Week 2 rematch of the Super Bowl, with the Eagles defeating the Chiefs again, FOX’s primary late afternoon broadcast averaged 33.8 million viewers. It breaks the record for the most-watched Week 2 game ever, topping the previous mark (28 million) for the Chiefs vs Bengals matchup in Week 2 of last season.
• Sunday Night Football – NBC’s SNF duel between the Minnesota Vikings and Atlanta Falcons, a defensive battle, averaged 21.5 million viewers. It breaks NBC’s record for the most-watched Sunday Night Football Week 2 game.
• Monday Night Football – ESPN/ABC had its first Monday Night Football doubleheader of the season in Week 2, with the next coming in Week 4. The early MNF game averaged 17.4 million viewers, while the late-game kickoff for the Chargers vs Raiders dropped to 9.7 million. However, it still finished as the most-watched MNF doubleheader in ESPN’s history.

NFL TV Ratings for Week 1

Here is a quick breakdown of the NFL TV ratings from Week 1, starting with the NFL Kickoff Game on NBC between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles to ESPN’s Monday Night Football clash between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears.

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• NFL TV ratings for Week 1 (average): 22.3 million viewers

Notes on Week 1 NFL TV...