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While NFL games used to be limited to cable channels, the modern NFL has a number of partnerships with cable networks and streaming platforms. This means you need access to the standard cable channels, plus a Prime, Peacock, and Netflix subscription to catch all the NFL games exclusive to those platforms.
With so many cable and streaming platforms holding broadcast rights to NFL games, fans of nearly every team in the league will need to subscribe to at least one subscription service to watch all of their favorite teams’ games this season. For fans living out of their favorite team’s home market, the cost of watching out-of-market games via Sunday Ticket rises even more.
To find out which fans face the biggest streaming bill this season, our team at All About Cookies analyzed each team’s 2026-2027 NFL TV schedule and found out how many premium games fans of each team will have to pay to watch this season and broke down the cost of a Sunday Ticket subscription for out-of-market fans looking to catch every snap of action from their favorite squad this year.
The NFL regular season consists of 272 total games, with 43 games exclusively broadcast on streaming platforms or cable networks like ESPN (Monday Night Football). That means 16% of games during the 2026-2027 season require fans to pay to watch them. That is a slight reduction from last year when there were 47 games (17%) broadcast on paid platforms, but is still more than in the 2024-2025 season when there were “just” 41 games (15%) broadcast on cable or streaming platforms.
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ESPN and ESPN Unlimited will broadcast 17 games this season, the highest number of games among premium services. Those games represent the league’s Monday Night Football games, which ESPN has broadcast on its cable channel since 2006 and simulcasts on ESPN Unlimited. Fans who pay for existing cable subscriptions should already have access to ESPN, but any cord-cutting NFL fans who want to watch on Monday nights will need a dedicated ESPN Unlimited subscription.
Prime Video, home to Thursday Night Football, is another service with a monopoly on games played on a certain day of the week. As a result, Prime will broadcast almost as many games as ESPN Unlimited, with 16 scheduled for the season.
Six games will air on the NFL’s cable channel (NFL Network) and be simulcast on its streaming service (NFL+), while Netflix has doubled its roster of exclusive NFL games from 2 last year to 4 this season. In addition to the two Christmas Day games that have been carried on Netflix each of the last two seasons, the streaming giant is also the exclusive broadcast home of the first-ever NFL regular season game to be played in Australia during Week 1 as well as the first NFL game to be played on Thanksgiving Eve, the Wednesday before Turkey Day.
Finally, Peacock will be the exclusive broadcast home of a game during Week 17 this year, though the teams for that game will not be announced until later in the season.
Most NFL games are broadcast for free over-the-air on channels like FOX and CBS. However, the specific games available on those free channels differ from one media market to the next, meaning that fans living outside of their favorite team’s home market may not be able to watch their squad play on their local affiliate station.
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For those fans as well as the football diehards who can’t get enough pigskin action, the NFL Sunday Ticket allows fans to watch every single NFL game that isn’t exclusive to a specific channel or platform. It also comes with a hefty price tag.
NFL Sunday Ticket launched more than 30 years ago, and has been beloved by displaced NFL fans and football junkies ever since, while also lining the NFL’s pockets with millions of dollars in subscription fees. A Sunday Ticket subscription costs new users $240 for the season, while returning customers are looking at a $378 bill for this season.
Sunday Ticket grants viewers access to every single out-of-market game broadcast on CBS and FOX, but does not include national broadcasts, a category that encompasses Sunday Night Football games on NBC, Monday Night Football on ESPN, Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, or any games that are exclusive to a cable channel or streaming service.
Since YouTube is the home of Sunday Ticket, fans looking to maximize their football viewing this season can choose to bundle a YouTube TV subscription with their Sunday Ticket account to get access to every NFL game broadcast on NBC, ESPN, and NFL Network. For the season, such a subscription would cost around $370 for new subscribers and around $415 for returning customers. Those costs would be in addition to the season-long cost for Sunday Ticket.
While Sunday Ticket plus YouTube TV covers the vast majority of NFL games, there are still 21 games between Prime, Netflix, and Peacock, requiring three additional subscriptions for any fan looking to be an NFL completionist this season. Adding the season-long costs for those subscriptions to the prices for YouTube TV and Sunday Ticket, new users will need to spend $737.83 to watch every NFL game this year, while returning customers will need to spend nearly $200 more, $920.83 in total.
Costs to watch every one of a given NFL team’s games vary greatly depending on whether a fan is watching from their team’s home market or not. Local fans can watch every game except those exclusive to cable and streaming platforms for free via over-the-air channels, while fans living farther away will need to pay a premium for NFL Sunday Ticket, the league’s official out-of-market subscription service, currently broadcast on YouTube.
We calculated season-long costs for both groups of fans for every team. To do so, we researched three things for in-market fans:
For out-of-market fans, we looked up the following pieces of information:
Using this information, we calculated how much each NFL fan base will pay in subscription costs to catch every game of their squad this year, no matter where they live.
| Costs for in-market fans | Costs for out-of-market fans | |||||
| Team | # of premium games | Per game cost (subscribe and cancel) | Full season cost (subscribe and renew monthly) | Premium platforms | Sunday Ticket + YouTube TV (new subscribers)* | Sunday Ticket + YouTube TV (returning customers)* |
| Los Angeles Rams | 5 | $92.95 | $215.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video, Netflix (2) | $705.87 | $888.87 |
| Green Bay Packers | 5 | $77.95 | $215.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video (2), Netflix (2) | $705.87 | $888.87 |
| Chicago Bears | 4 | $83.96 | $215.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video, Netflix | $705.87 | $888.87 |
| Philadelphia Eagles | 4 | $81.96 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video, NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Washington Commanders | 4 | $81.96 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video, NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Denver Broncos | 4 | $68.96 | $215.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video (2), Netflix | $705.87 | $888.87 |
| Houston Texans | 4 | $66.96 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video (2), NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 4 | $66.96 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video (2), NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Buffalo Bills | 4 | $53.97 | $215.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video, Netflix | $705.87 | $888.87 |
| Jacksonville Jaguars | 4 | $51.97 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video, NFL Network/NFL+ (2) | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Seattle Seahawks | 3 | $74.97 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Dallas Cowboys | 3 | $74.97 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 3 | $74.97 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| New York Giants | 3 | $74.97 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited (2), Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Baltimore Ravens | 3 | $59.97 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video (2) | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| New England Patriots | 3 | $59.97 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video (2) | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| San Francisco 49ers | 3 | $53.97 | $215.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video, Netflix | $705.87 | $888.87 |
| Atlanta Falcons | 3 | $51.97 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video, NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Cincinnati Bengals | 3 | $51.97 | $207.88 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video, NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Minnesota Vikings | 2 | $44.98 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Detroit Lions | 2 | $44.98 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Los Angeles Chargers | 2 | $44.98 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 2 | $44.98 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Carolina Panthers | 2 | $44.98 | $179.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| New Orleans Saints | 2 | $36.98 | $147.92 | ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, NFL Network/NFL+ | $609.95 | $792.95 |
| Indianapolis Colts | 2 | $21.98 | $87.92 | Prime Video, NFL Network/NFL+ | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Cleveland Browns | 1 | $14.99 | $59.96 | Prime Video | $669.91 | $852.91 |
| Miami Dolphins | 0 | $0.00 | $0.00 | None | $609.95 | $792.95 |
| Las Vegas Raiders | 0 | $0.00 | $0.00 | None | $609.95 | $792.95 |
| New York Jets | 0 | $0.00 | $0.00 | None | $609.95 | $792.95 |
| Arizona Cardinals | 0 | $0.00 | $0.00 | None | $609.95 | $792.95 |
| Tennessee Titans | 0 | $0.00 | $0.00 | None | $609.95 | $792.95 |
| NFL Average | 2.6 | $50.13 | $157.04 | - | $665.41 | $848.41 |
* Bundled Sunday Ticket + YouTube TV subscriptions include access to premium broadcast platforms such as ESPN and NFL Network. As a result, subscription costs for those platforms were not included in calculations for Sunday Ticket+ YouTube TV subscribers.
At the top of the list is a pair of teams playing five "premium" games on cable or streaming-exclusive services this year, with a different combination of platforms for each.
The Los Angeles Rams play two Monday Night Football clashes on ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, a single Thursday night game on Prime Video, and two Netflix games. The Green Bay Packers are the other team with five premium games scheduled, consisting of one Monday night game on ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, two Thursday night games on Prime Video, and two games that will be broadcast exclusively on Netflix. Notably, the Rams and Packers share one of their Netflix games, as the teams will face off in the NFL’s first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game. That game will be played on Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving, and will be broadcast exclusively on Netflix.
Rams fans paying for the relevant subscriptions on a per-game basis will have to spend over $90 to watch their team, the highest rate in the league. Those opting to pay for season-long subscriptions are looking at more than $215, tied with the Packers, Broncos,Bills, 49ers, and Bears for the highest price tag this season.
For comparison, the average per-game cost among all NFL fans is $50.13, while the season-long average cost is $157.04.
There are five teams without any premium games on their schedule, meaning in-market fans won’t have to pay for a single subscription to catch every snap of action from their favorite team this fall. As we head into the season, these free-TV-only teams are the Arizona Cardinals, Las Vegas Raiders, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, and Tennessee Titans. The Dolphins' presence on this list is particularly notable as they were tied for the highest number of premium games last season with five.
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| Related channels | Price | |
| YouTube TV | NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, ESPN, NFL Network | $67.99/mo for first three months, $82.99/mo after |
| Sunday Ticket | All out-of-market NFL games | $40.00/mo (returning users) or $30.00/mo for 8 months (new users) |
| Hulu + Live TV | NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, ESPN, NFL Network | Starts at $89.99/mo |
| Sling TV | NBC (local), FOX, ABC, ESPN, NFL Network | Starts at $60.99/mo (need Orange + Blue) |
| Fubo | NBC, CBS (local), FOX, ABC, ESPN, NFL Network | Starts at $48.99/mo for first month, $73.99/mo after |
| DIRECTV Streaming | NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, ESPN, NFL Network | Starts at $89.99/mo for first month, $124.99/mo after (need Ultimate plan) |
| ESPN | ABC, ESPN, exclusively airing 17 games | $29.99/mo (need Unlimited tier) |
| Paramount+ | CBS (local) | $8.99/mo |
| Peacock | NBC, exclusively airing Saturday game during Week 17 | Starts at $10.99/mo |
| Amazon Prime | Exclusively airing 16 Thursday night games | $8.99/mo |
| Netflix | Exclusively airing four games | Starts at $8.99/mo |
| NFL+ | Exclusively airing six games | Starts at $6.99 |
All About Cookies looked at the official 2026-2027 schedule for every NFL team and found how many games each team will play that will be broadcast on premium streaming services.
We then found the current prices of the streaming services broadcasting each game and calculated the total amount that fans of each team will have to pay for per-game and full-season subscriptions based on when and how often their team plays on each platform.
Broadcast platforms for a number of games in the final two weeks of the season have not yet been announced, so data for those games is not included here.
Only games for which a subscription is required for most people in the country to watch were counted. That means games that can be watched on a streaming service but are also available on a free over-the-air broadcast channel (e.g., CBS games that are also on Paramount+ or NBC games on Peacock) were not included in these calculations.
Games simulcast on cable channels such as ESPN and NFL Network were included, as there is no free alternative to watching those games. Fans would need either a paid streaming service subscription or a paid cable subscription.
We also found the full-season costs for both new and returning customers for a subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket bundled with YouTube TV. Those costs came directly from the Sunday Ticket website.
Prices for streaming services are accurate as of July 2026. Per-game costs are based on what it would cost to purchase a one-month subscription for the month when each game occurs, while season-long costs are based on the amount it would cost to subscribe to each service where at least one team game is being broadcast for the entire season (approximately four months).
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