2025 NFL Thursday Night Football – TNF Season Recap

2025 NFL Thursday Night Football – Season Recap

Since Thursday Night Football became a permanent part of the NFL schedule nearly two decades ago it’s been a fixture for fans starting the betting week. The NFL has tried to showcase as many teams as possible while not putting others at a competitive disadvantage working on short weeks. There has also been a demand for divisional and conference games with 11 of the 17 contests featuring division rivals.

I think we can say the scheduling has been a success. During the 2025 season 26 of the 32 teams were featured on TNF with six teams making two appearances and the Philadelphia Eagles making three stops on TNF. The Eagles might want to opt out of Thursday night games after losing two of their appearances. It didn’t prevent the defending Super Bowl champions from winning the NFC East, though.

One of the arguments against playing on Thursday night is the short week for teams that play the prior Sunday. Teams have fewer days to prepare with the visiting squad seen as being at a disadvantage due to travel. That appeared to be the case in 2025 with the home team winning 11 of the 17 games for the second straight season. The difference was noticeable early in the year with the home club winning the first three TNF games and nine of the first 12. The road team won three of the last five TNF games, including Denver getting its first season sweep of Kansas City in 11 years with a 20-13 victory in Week 17.

Overtime games don’t happen that often in the NFL. Through Week 17 of the 2025 season there were 14 games that went beyond regulation. So to have two OT games on TNF is rare. And rarer is that the same team was involved in both games. The Los Angeles Rams dropped a pair of heart breakers in Week 5 at home 26-23 to San Francisco and again in Week 16, 38-37, in Seattle. Those two setbacks prevented LA from winning the NFC West.

There were a number of close games on the 2025 TNF slate with nine of the 17 contests decided by one score and six of those ending up with a margin of three points or less. The final three weeks produced some of the most exciting games of the season with Seattle overcoming a 16-point fourth quarter deficit to beat the Rams in an epic matchup 38-37. The teams combined for 996 total yards in the highest scoring of the 17 games.

That contest followed another one-point game between NFC South rivals Atlanta and Tampa Bay in Week 15. The Falcons were down 14 points in the fourth quarter and got a walkoff 43-yard field goal from Zane Gonzalez to win 29-28. The New York Giants are floundering at the bottom of the NFL standings with only three wins entering the final weekend of the season. They made their lone appearance on TNF a success with a 34-17 win over the Eagles in Week 6.

Winning on Thursday Night Football has correlated to success in standings, at least for Denver and Seattle. The only teams with more than appearance and without a loss this season, the teams enter Week 18 leading their respective divisions with a chance to lock up the No. 1 playoff seeds. All in all it was another exciting season of Thursday Night Football.

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