Sports Ratings Tracker

Rams-Chiefs topped the first full week of the NFL preseason with a 1.2 rating and 2.38 million viewers on NFL Network last Saturday afternoon — up from Vikings-Texans last year (2.1M).

Packers-Steelers placed second with a 1.1 and 2.28 million on NFL Network two nights earlier, up from Colts-Ravens last year (1.89M). The Steelers’ win easily surpassed the competing MLB “Field of Dreams” game from Dyersville, Iowa, on Netflix the same night (0.7, 1.66M).

NFL Network also averaged a 1.1 and 2.23 million for Cowboys-Seahawks following Rams-Chiefs last Saturday night — up from Jets-Packers last year (1.73M) — and a 0.9 and 1.65 million for Browns-Bears in the first game of its Saturday tripleheader, down from the year-ago Giants-Bills (1.81M).

Sunday’s Bears-Bills NFL preseason game averaged 5.1 million viewers on FOX, marking the network’s most-watched preseason game since it carried the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game in 2021.

Viewership increased 11% from the lone preseason game on FOX last year, Saints-49ers (4.6M).