How to Watch the NFL This Season – A Guide to Streaming Options

The 2024 NFL season begins Thursday (Sept. 5), when the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs play conference rival Baltimore Ravens in NBC's (and Peacock's) annual Kick-off Classic. The game is the first of 272 regular-season games over 18 weeks, followed by 13 postseason games culminating in Super Bowl LIX.

All NFL games are televised and/or streamed, and this season more games will be streamed on more SVOD platforms, so NFL fans may have to dig a little deeper into their pockets this season if they want to see some of their favorite teams in action.

Last season, the average age of NFL viewers on linear television was a graying 55.4 years old. The NFL hopes to attract younger viewers by broadcasting more games.

This season, there will be four SVOD providers that will stream one or more NFL games exclusively: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, ESPN+ and newcomer Netflix. According to Front Office Sports During the 2024 season, at least one game will be streamed exclusively every week. Here's an overview.

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video is starting its third season as the home of Thursday Night Football. This season, Prime Video will exclusively broadcast 15 Football on Thursday evening Games begin on September 12 (Buffalo at Miami) and end on December 26 (Seattle at Chicago).

Last season, Thursday Night Football averaged 11.86 million viewers, up 24% from the previous year. Amazon will pay the NFL $1 billion annually through the 2033 season to stream Thursday Night Football.

For the second year in a row, Prime Video will also exclusively stream a Black Friday game (Las Vegas vs. Kansas City). Last year's game (Miami vs. New York Jets) averaged 9.61 million viewers. The e-commerce giant reportedly paid the NFL about $100 million to exclusively stream a game on Black Friday, one of the busiest holiday shopping days each year.

Additionally, Prime Video will stream an NFL Wild Card game for the first time next January. Amazon is reportedly paying the NFL over $150 million to stream the game exclusively. Starting in the 2025-26 season, Prime Video will also stream NBA games live. Starting in January 2026, Prime Video will stream a Thursday night NBA doubleheader at the end of Thursday Night Football coverage.

A regular monthly subscription to Prime Video costs $15. The annual cost is $139. The standalone streaming service subscription costs $9 per month.

peacock

During the first week (Friday, September 6) of the NFL season, NBCU's Peacock will exclusively broadcast a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers from São Paulo, Brazil.

Last season, Peacock reportedly paid the NFL $110 million to exclusively live stream a Wild Card game (Miami vs. Kansas City). The game averaged 23 million viewers and Peacock reportedly added three million new subscribers. Additionally, this season Peacock will live stream all NFL games broadcast on NBC, including the Kick-off Classic, all Sunday Night Football games, Thanksgiving Eve and postseason games.

During the Paris Olympics, Peacock streamed 5,000 hours of coverage and averaged 4 to 5 million viewers per day. NBCU reported that Peacock added 2.8 million new subscribers. The monthly subscription fee for Peacock starts at $8, with an ad-free version costing $14.

ESPN+

This season ESPN+ will exclusively stream a Monday Night Football game on October 21 (Los Angeles Chargers vs. Arizona). ESPN+ will also stream many (but not all) Monday Night Football games that air on ESPN and/or ABC. For the postseason, ESPN+ will live stream a Wild Card game and a Divisional Round game that also air on ESPN and ABC. ESPN+ costs $10.99 per month or $109.99 per year. It is also available through the Disney package.

Netflix

The biggest change in the NFL season schedule was the addition of Netflix's exclusive live streaming of two Christmas Day games. Netflix is ​​reportedly paying the NFL $75 million per game to live stream two Christmas Day games through the 2026 regular season.

This season, Christmas Day games are between Kansas City and Pittsburgh at 1:00 p.m. ET and Baltimore and Houston at 4:30 p.m. ET. A monthly Netflix subscription with ads costs $6.99 per month, a monthly fee for standard HD video costs $15.49 per month and is ad-free. Other subscription packages are also available.

Outstanding+

Outstanding+ will live stream all games broadcast on CBS. This includes all Sunday afternoon games, Thanksgiving Day and postseason games. Paramount+ Essentials costs $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year. (Paramount+ with Showtime is more expensive.)

YouTube TV

For the second year in a row, YouTube TV will exclusively stream NFL Sunday Ticket. The subscription service allows viewers to watch more than 160 NFL games outside of their market on Sunday afternoons on Fox and CBS. YouTube is paying the NFL $14 billion to stream Sunday Ticket over seven seasons.

The annual Sunday Ticket subscription costs $479.99, or $519.99 when bundled with the NFL RedZone channel. The price for NFL Sunday Ticket with a YouTube TV subscription is $635.96 over four months. At the end of the four-month NFL season, the monthly subscription fee for the YouTube TV base package is $72.99

NFL+

The NFL's own streaming provider NFL+ allows users to stream any national or local game regardless of the TV network or streaming provider. The games can only be watched on mobile devices such as phones and tablets. NFL+ Premium allows access to the NFL RedZone as well as other features such as replays.

An NFL+ subscription costs $6.99 monthly or $49.99 annually. NFL+ Premium costs $14.99 monthly or $99.99 annually.

Televised games

Most games will continue to be broadcast on NBC, CBS, Fox and ABC, requiring either a monthly MVPD/vMVPD subscription or a digital antenna for a low one-time fee. Cable channels ESPN and NFL Network would require an MVPD/vMVPD subscription.

Additionally, Fubo TV, a vMVPD, offers access to ESPN, NFL Network, Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as dozens of other live channels. Monthly subscription prices for Fubo TV start at $80. NFL games on broadcast/cable TV can also be streamed on other vMVPDs such as Sling TV, DirecTV Stream, Hulu Plus Live TV, and YouTube TV. Cost and number of available networks vary.

Streaming packages

Venu Sports, a collaboration between Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery (which would stream NFL games from Fox, ESPN and ABC), had plans to launch its service before the start of the 2024 NFL season. Last month, Fubo TV obtained a temporary restraining order against them, temporarily halting the planned launch date. Venu had set the monthly subscription fee at $42.99.