The Commanders’ resurgence this season gave Thursday Night Football an unusually potent matchup on the field, and in the ratings.
The latest edition of NFL Thursday Night Football — a matchup of 7-2 teams between the Commanders and Eagles — averaged 14.42 million viewers on Amazon Prime Video, trailing only Cowboys-Giants in Week 4 (16.22M) and Bills-Dolphins in Week 2 (14.96M) as the most-watched TNF game of the season.
In the three years that Amazon has carried Thursday night games, it ranks fifth in viewership behind the two aforementioned games and a pair from last season, Seahawks-Cowboys in Week 13 (15.26M) and Vikings-Eagles in Week 2 (15.05M). Only one other streaming-exclusive NFL game has averaged a larger Nielsen-measured audience, the Dolphins-Chiefs Wild Card playoff game on Peacock in January.
The Eagles’ win, which peaked with 16.23 million viewers in the 9:15 PM ET quarter-hour, increased 11% over Bengals-Ravens last year (12.98M) and delivered the largest Week 11 TNF audience in four years (2020 Cardinals-Seahawks: 14.77M).
Thursday Night Football is now averaging 13.20 million viewers for the season, up 8% from last year (12.27M), up 36% from 2022 (9.72M) and the highest average through ten games since 2019 on FOX and NFL Network (13.42M).
The series is averaging 2.74 million viewers among adults under 35 and 6.20 million among adults under 50, up 7% and 6% respectively from 2.57 and 5.83 million at the same point last year. This year’s median age of 48 is the same as last year and remains several years younger than the other linear NFL broadcasters (55) or primetime broadcast television (63).
