NFL Network Audience Graph • Social Signal

At 0.98, NFL on ESPN is the strongest pull in NFL Network's top 10 — but the second peak, a cluster of NFL players, pulls the shape in a distinctly different direction.

The top 10 divides cleanly into two neighborhoods. The first is NFL broadcast infrastructure: NFL on ESPN (0.98), NFL (0.97), FOX Sports: NFL (0.96), NFL on CBS (0.94), and Sunday Night Football (0.94) form a tight band of TV shows and the league itself — the institutional layer of professional football. These five neighbors share subcategories of TV Shows, TV Channels, and Sports Leagues, all orbiting the same broadcast ecosystem as NFL Network.

The second peak is athletes. Russell Wilson (0.90), Tyrann Mathieu (0.88), and Le'Veon Bell (0.87) anchor a run of individual players that extends through Antonio Brown (0.87) and into the wider graph. These are not analysts or hosts — they are active or recently active NFL players, a subcategory distinct from the broadcast properties above. The one non-athlete, non-broadcast entry in the top 10 is B/R Gridiron (0.87), a football-focused website that bridges the two clusters.

The two-peak structure reveals an audience that is simultaneously oriented toward the institutional broadcast of the sport and toward the individual players within it — a combination that distinguishes NFL Network from a generic sports channel.

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NFL Network

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