This week on the channel +4.1M views this week

Kirk Cousins, Fernando Mendoza and a Taylor Swift theory fill NFL on ESPN's fifteen uploads

Jeremy Shockey's Super Bowl XLIV touchdown and Chris Berman's Week 4 recap with Booger McFarland were part of the same weekend run.

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NFL on ESPNStory of October 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Kirk Cousins' presence could do wonders for Fernando Mendoza!

NFL on ESPN put up fifteen videos in the run-up to and aftermath of Week 4. The newest talking point turned out to be the quickest: a debate about what a veteran like Kirk Cousins could mean for a young Fernando Mendoza. In its first half day it drew more views than anything else the channel posted all week. The comments read like a quarterback-development seminar. Viewers bring up Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, Cousins's years in Shanahan-style offenses, and how good it is to hear Alex Smith talk football again.

The rest of the week wandered nicely. Nick Wright laid out Kevin Wildes's idea that Taylor Swift may have found she loves the football world as much as Travis Kelce does, and that this could keep the Chiefs tight end playing. The conversation then drifts into how much high school shapes who people become. Jeremy Shockey told the story of his touchdown in Super Bowl XLIV, when the Saints beat the Colts. Adam Schefter found the donut tradition that keeps Demaryius Thomas's memory alive around the Broncos. And on Monday morning, Chris Berman and Booger McFarland walked through the weekend on NFL Primetime, from the Cowboys' offense to the Chargers at 0-4.

All of it kept the channel running above its usual daily pace, with about four million views on the week and a few thousand new subscribers. Among similar sports channels, The Rich Eisen Show had the biggest week by a distance, while NHL on ESPN, the hockey sibling, was well below its normal pace.

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Love seeing and hearing Alex Smith talk football.
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Kirk has the experience of playing in the Shanahan west coast offenses. What the league has been trying copy.
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