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What are the streaming exclusive games in the 2025-26 NFL season?

What are the streaming exclusive games in the 2025-26 NFL season?

This season there will be over 20 games that are only available via streaming, including the first YouTube-exclusive game.

Matt Tamanini
Matt Tamanini is the News Editor at The Streamable, where he oversees daily news coverage and editorial strategy, with a particular focus on breaking stories, streaming comparisons, and major industry events. A well-rounded journalist with a diverse background, Matt joined The Streamable in 2022 after holding key editorial roles at several high-profile outlets. He has an extensive career in sports and entertainment journalism, having served as a senior editor for BroadwayWorld, the world’s largest theater website, and as managing editor for Land-Grant Holy Land, which covers Ohio State sports.
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With a background in sports and entertainment reporting, he’s covered everything from Broadway to college football. He cut the cord in 2014 and has a sharp eye for streaming trends and a soft spot for Hallmark movies.
With a background in sports and entertainment reporting, he’s covered everything from Broadway to college football. He cut the cord in 2014 and has a sharp eye for streaming trends and a soft spot for Hallmark movies.

For many football fans around the world, Wednesday was a national holiday as the NFL announced the schedule for the 2025-26 regular season. While there are still some game times and broadcast partners listed as “TBD,” you are now able to build the bulk of your fall calendar around your favorite team’s games.

However, if you are someone who still watches football exclusively via a cable, satellite, or live TV streaming subscription, there will be some games that you will not be able to see. As the NFL is becoming more and more comfortable with the idea of airing contests on streaming, we are seeing a slow but steady increase in the number of matchups moving to streaming exclusives. The majority of these games will be part of the “Thursday Night Football” package that airs weekly on Prime Video. Outside of those matchups, there are just a handful of games found only on subscription streamers.

The good news about all of these streaming games is that fans in the home markets of the teams playing will have alternate ways of watching via local broadcast channels, but of course, that doesn’t help fans of those teams in other parts of the country, or folks who simply want to consume as much football as possible. This season, there will be NFL streaming exclusives on Prime Video, ESPN+, Netflix, Peacock, and — for the first time — YouTube. The good thing about the Google-owned addition to this list is that the YouTube game will stream for free, while all of the others will require a subscription.

What else is unique about this NFL season’s streaming availability is that with the addition of the forthcoming Fox One platform and the standalone ESPN streamer, every game of the season will be available to watch via streaming without having to sign up for a live TV streamer. So, for the first time in history, it will be possible to stream every game regardless of channel, market, or teams involved.

We went through the NFL’s schedule and pulled together every regular season game that you will absolutely have to watch via streaming, so you can plan your viewing — and subscriptions — accordingly.

What 2025-26 NFL games will be streaming exclusives?

Week 1

Friday, Sept. 5 at 8 p.m. ET: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Chargers | YouTube

Week 2

Thursday, Sept. 11 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Washington Commanders vs. Green Bay Packers | Prime Video

Week 3

Thursday, Sept. 18 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Miami Dolphins vs. Buffalo Bills | Prime Video

Week 4

Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Seattle Seahawks vs. Arizona Cardinals | Prime Video

Week 5

Thursday, Oct. 2 at 8:15 p.m. ET: San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams | Prime Video

Week 6

Thursday, Oct. 9 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants | Prime Video

Week 7

Thursday, Oct. 16 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cincinnati Bengals | Prime Video

Monday, Oct. 20 at 10 p.m. ET: Houston Texans vs. Seattle Seahawks | ESPN+

Week 8

Thursday, Oct. 23 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Minnesota Vikings vs. Los Angeles Chargers | Prime Video

Week 9

Thursday, Oct. 30 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Baltimore Ravens vs. Miami Dolphins | Prime Video

Week 10

Thursday, Nov. 6 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Las Vegas Raiders vs. Denver Broncos | Prime Video

Week 11

Thursday, Nov. 13 at 8:15 p.m. ET: New York Jets vs. New England Patriots | Prime Video

Week 12

Thursday, Nov. 20 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Buffalo Bills vs. Houston Texans | Prime Video

Week 13

Friday, Nov. 28 at 3 p.m. ET: Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles | Prime Video

Week 14

Thursday, Dec. 4 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Dallas Cowboys vs. Detroit Lions | Prime Video

Week 15

Thursday, Dec. 11 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Atlanta Falcons vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Prime Video

Week 16

Thursday, Dec. 18 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks | Prime Video

Week 17

Thursday, Dec. 25 at 1 p.m. ET: Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders | Netflix

Thursday, Dec. 25 at 4:30 p.m. ET: Detroit Lions vs. Minnesota Vikings | Netflix

Thursday, Dec. 25 at 8:15 p.m. ET: Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs | Prime Video

Saturday, Dec. 27 Time TBA: Teams TBA | Peacock

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Peacock also includes news, entertainment, sports, late-night, and reality from various NBCU properties, including NBC, Bravo, and E!. Additionally, Peacock has exclusives like “Below Deck: Down Under.” They also include live and on-demand access to Hallmark channels.

The company has acquired the rights to many classic shows, including “Parks and Recreation” and the entire Dick Wolf library, which includes “Law & Order” and “Chicago Fire.”

Peacock features weekly Sunday night NFL games during the regular season, available on the Premium and Premium Plus plans.

Peacock again raised prices on August 18, 2026, with the cost of plans increasing to $8.99 for the Select, $12.99 for Premium, and $19.99 for Premium Plus.

The service also features blockbusters and critically acclaimed films from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, as well as content acquired from Hollywood’s biggest studios.

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Matt Tamanini is the News Editor at The Streamable, where he oversees daily news coverage and editorial strategy, with a particular focus on breaking stories, streaming comparisons, and major industry events. A well-rounded journalist with a diverse background, Matt joined The Streamable in 2022 after holding key editorial roles at several high-profile outlets. He has an extensive career in sports and entertainment journalism, having served as a senior editor for BroadwayWorld, the world’s largest theater website, and as managing editor for Land-Grant Holy Land, which covers Ohio State sports.
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