Thursday Night Football has become a staple of the NFL season, as fans get to kick off each new week of NFL action with an exciting matchup. And the weekly primetime game has an exclusive streaming home, with Prime Video handling the coverage.
US: Prime Video | NFL Plus | local stations for participating teams' cities
UK: Sky TV | NFL Game Pass
Thursday Night Football is set as the first game in just about each week of the NFL season (there are a few exceptions), with the rest of the week's action playing out on the NFL on CBS, NFL on Fox, Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football.
With that in mind, here's everything you need to know on how to watch Thursday Night Football.
How to watch Thursday Night Football in the US
For Prime Video's special Thursday Night Football broadcast, the best way to make sure you can watch all the action is by having an Amazon Prime account. With Amazon Prime you automatically get access to Prime Video, which also includes the streamer's original TV shows and movies, a library of classic movies and TV shows and access to a range of Prime Video channels.
You can watch Thursday Night Football through Prime Video on a web browser, smart TV, tablets, mobile devices and other connected devices that have the Prime Video app.
For those in the local markets of the two teams playing in a given week, those games are also available on their local broadcast TVs. Channels will differ for each market, but most options are going to be available through a traditional pay-TV service or a live TV streaming service like Fubo, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV and YouTube TV.
In addition, the Prime Video stream should be available in bars, restaurants and other out-of-home venues, in case you are out and about but don't want to miss TNF action.
The streaming service Twitch is also offering streams of Prime Video's football coverage. Watching the game on Twitch allows viewers to interact through live chat, see stats, participate in polls and make live predictions.
The NFL's streaming service, NFL Plus, can also stream games on Prime Video, but only on mobile or tablet devices.
How to watch Thursday Night Football in the UK
For UK NFL fans, Thursday Night Football airs on Sky Sports' Main Event and NFL channels starting at 12:30 am UK on Fridays. UK viewers can also sign up for NFL Game Pass to stream NFL games.
Thursday Night Football: Broncos vs Saints preview
For the first time in weeks the Thursday Night Football matchup is not a divisional rivalry, but that doesn't mean there's no juice to this game. In fact, it sees Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton go up against his former team, the New Orleans Saints.
The Broncos comes into the week 7 matchup at 3-3, having just suffered a loss last week to snap a three-game winning streak. With rookie quarterback Bo Nix under center, they've definitely been a defense first team. The Broncos D ranks fourth in total yards per game allowed, fourth in points allowed per game, fifth in passing yards allowed per game and second in sacks; where they have some struggles is against the run. Unfortunately their offense has been as bad statistically as their defense has been good, only scoring 20 points or more twice this season. So the defense is likely going to need to keep this one a low-scoring affair in order to have a chance to win.
The problem is the Saints are capable of scoring a lot of points, especially if they can get running back Alvin Kamara going. Kamara has 428 rushing yards on the season, 238 receiving yards and seven total touchdowns as the Saints key offensive weapon. He'll need to be that again as they're expected to start rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler for the second straight week with Derek Carr out and are going to be without their two top receivers, Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed, and Swiss Army knife Taysom Hill. The Saints defense, meanwhile, has given up the most yards per game in the league and is coming off a game where they allowed 51 points despite causing three turnovers. The Saints are hoping they can figure things out to end their four-game losing streak that has them at 2-4 entering week 7.
Thursday Night Football schedule
Here is the 2024 Prime Video Thursday Night Football schedule. All games start at 8:15 pm ET/5:15 pm PT unless otherwise specified.
- Week 2: Buffalo Bills 31, Miami Dolphins 10
- Week 3: New England Patriots 3, New York Jets 24
- Week 4: Dallas Cowboys 20, New York Giants 15
- Week 5: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 36, Atlanta Falcons 30
- Week 6: San Francisco 49ers 36, Seattle Seahawks 24
- Week 7: Denver Broncos vs New Orleans Saints
- Week 8: Minnesota Vikings vs Los Angeles Rams
- Week 9: Houston Texans vs New York Jets
- Week 10: Cincinnati Bengals vs Baltimore Ravens
- Week 11: Washington Commanders vs Philadelphia Eagles
- Week 12: Pittsburgh Steelers vs Cleveland Browns
- Week 13 (Friday, November 29, 3 pm ET/noon PT): Las Vegas Raiders vs Kansas City Chiefs
- Week 14: Green Bay Packers vs Detroit Lions
- Week 15: Los Angeles Rams vs San Francisco 49ers
- Week 16: Cleveland Browns vs Cincinnati Bengals
- Week 17: Seattle Seahawks vs Chicago Bears
Thursday Night Football commentators
Expected to return for the 2024 season is legendary play-by-play announced Al Michaels, with football analyst Kirk Herbstreit joining him in the booth. The TNF sideline reporter is Kaylee Hartung.
In addition, NFL Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez, Richard Sherman, Andrew Whitworth and Ryan Fitzpatrick serve as analysts for Thursday Night Football's pregame, halftime and postgame shows, with Charissa Thompson serving as host. In addition, Taylor Rooks is a feature reporter for the broadcast, Michael Smith is on board as a news analyst and Terry McAulay is the TNF's rules analyst.
Marshawn Lynch, a Super Bowl winner and recent star of Bottoms, is also part of the Thursday Night Football team, doing special segments that'll run throughout the season.
