How to Watch Every NFL Game Without Cable, Window by Window

This NFL season is split across four broadcast networks, ESPN, Prime Video, Netflix and Peacock, and even Paramount’s own guide admits that no single service offers every game. The short answer to how to watch the NFL without cable: an antenna for your local Sunday games, then a few apps rented only in the months they carry something you want. This guide maps every window to a legal stream, lists what’s left on the calendar from Week 10, and prices the cheapest stack. Prices and line-ups are as of November 11, 2026.

Every window, and where it streams

Start here. Find the games you actually watch, then ignore the rows you don’t.

Window	Network	Stream without cable
Sunday 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET (local)	CBS or FOX	Antenna; Paramount+ (CBS); FOX One (FOX)
Sunday 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET (out of market)	CBS or FOX	NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube
Sunday Night Football	NBC	Antenna; Peacock
Monday Night Football	ESPN (some on ABC)	ESPN Unlimited; antenna for the ABC games
Thursday Night Football	Prime Video	Prime Video; Twitch
Netflix games	Netflix	Netflix only
Peacock exclusive (Jan. 2)	Peacock	Peacock (plus NBC stations in the two teams’ cities)
NFL Network games	NFL Network	ESPN Unlimited
Any local or primetime game, on a phone	Varies	NFL+ (phones and tablets only)

Sources: Sports Video Group’s 2026 broadcast roundup, NBC Sports, Amazon, The Streamable. Checked November 11, 2026.

Start with an antenna

Most NFL games still air on broadcast TV; CBS alone has more than 100 regular-season games. CBS and FOX split Sunday afternoons, NBC has Sunday night, and ABC picks up some Monday games. Your local stations send those signals over the air for free, and an indoor or rooftop antenna plugged into the TV is all it takes to pick them up.

Before you buy one, put your address into the FCC’s DTV reception maps. They list the stations near you and how strong each signal is likely to be. If your CBS, FOX and NBC affiliates show up as strong, an antenna covers the bulk of a Sunday at no monthly cost.

What it won’t get you: anything on Prime Video, Netflix, ESPN-only Monday games, or the Peacock exclusive. That’s what the apps are for.

The apps, one at a time

Each service below owns a specific slice of the season. Prices are monthly, from each service’s current published rate or recent reporting, as of November 11, 2026.

Paramount+ streams your local CBS games, with plans starting at $8.99 a month. Paramount’s guide doesn’t single out a tier for live CBS, so check the plan page for your market before you pick the cheapest one.

FOX One is FOX’s own streaming service at $19.99 a month, per the same Paramount+ guide, and it carries your local FOX games. With an antenna, you mostly don’t need it.

Peacock streams all NBC NFL games, including Sunday Night Football and the playoffs. It also has one game nobody else carries nationally: a Week 17 primetime game on Saturday, Jan. 2, after a 4:30 p.m. ET game on NBC. Peacock Premium went to $12.99 a month in August.

ESPN Unlimited is ESPN’s full streaming tier at $31.99 a month after its September increase. It carries Monday Night Football each week, and NFL Network and NFL RedZone are included through the NFL–ESPN partnership. This is the priciest single app on the list, and the one that matters more as the season goes on (more on that below).

Prime Video has Thursday Night Football: 17 regular-season games plus a Wild Card game. You sign in with a Prime account, which Amazon lists at $14.99 a month or $139 a year in the US. Each game also streams on Twitch.

Netflix has five games this season, four of them still to come. The cheapest US plan, Standard with ads, is $8.99 a month after the March increase.

The Monday night catch

Monday Night Football has 17 games this season, and 10 of them simulcast on ABC. Seven of those 10 came in the first nine weeks, according to the Sports Video Group roundup. From Week 10 on, most Monday games are ESPN-only. If an antenna carried your Mondays through October, that stops working in November.

Live-TV bundles: one login, biggest bill

Services such as YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo and Sling rebuild a cable package over the internet: local channels (market by market), ESPN and the rest of the sports tier. You trade the app-juggling for a larger monthly bill. As one price point, Paramount’s guide lists Sling Blue with Sports Extra at $57 a month.

Thursday games stream exclusively on Prime Video and the Netflix games only on Netflix, so a bundle still leaves those uncovered. A bundle earns its cost if you also want cable news and other channels in the house. For football alone, the app stack below is usually cheaper.

Out-of-market games: Sunday Ticket

If you follow a team that doesn’t play in your market, the only legal way to see its Sunday afternoon games is NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. It covers out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on CBS and FOX. It does not include Thursday Night Football, the postseason, or some regular-season games such as Thanksgiving.

The blackout logic catches people out. A game airing on your local CBS or FOX station isn’t on Sunday Ticket, because you can already watch it locally. A Bills fan in Buffalo gets Bills at Texans on local TV; a Bills fan in Washington, D.C., gets it on Sunday Ticket.

You can buy it through YouTube TV or as a standalone on YouTube Primetime Channels. At the September launch, 9to5Google reported $240 for the season for eligible new customers, $378 for returning customers through YouTube TV (plus the YouTube TV subscription), and $480 for returning customers on Primetime Channels. Check the current price on YouTube’s Sunday Ticket page before you buy.

NFL+: cheap, but on a small screen

NFL+ is the league’s own app, listed at $6.99 a month. It streams live local and primetime regular-season and postseason games, including the Thursday, Sunday night and Netflix games. The catch is the device rule: live games play only on a phone or tablet, not on your TV.

It’s a real option for following your local team on a commute or in a kitchen. It is not a way to watch the game on the big screen. NFL+ Premium adds RedZone, which can be watched on a TV.

What’s left on the calendar

This is where most guides stop at “it depends.” These are the national windows still to come from Week 10, and where each one lives. Times are ET.

Date	Game	Where
Sun., Nov. 15, 9:30 a.m.	Patriots–Lions (Munich)	FOX
Sun., Nov. 22	Vikings–49ers (Mexico City), SNF	NBC, Peacock
Wed., Nov. 25	Packers at Rams	Netflix
Thu., Nov. 26	Bears at Lions	CBS
Thu., Nov. 26, 4:30 p.m.	Cowboys–Eagles	FOX
Thu., Nov. 26	Chiefs at Bills	NBC, Peacock
Fri., Nov. 27	Broncos at Steelers	Prime Video
Sat., Dec. 19, 5:00 p.m.	Seahawks–Eagles	FOX
Sat., Dec. 19, 8:20 p.m.	Bears at Bills	CBS
Thu., Dec. 24	Texans at Eagles	Prime Video
Fri., Dec. 25, 1:00 p.m.	Packers at Bears	Netflix
Fri., Dec. 25, 4:30 p.m.	Bills at Broncos	Netflix
Fri., Dec. 25, 8:15 p.m.	Rams–Seahawks	FOX
Week 16	Two games, TBA	NFL Network
Thu., Dec. 31	Ravens at Bengals	Prime Video
Sat., Jan. 2, 4:30 p.m.	TBA	NBC, Peacock
Sat., Jan. 2, 8:00 p.m.	TBA	Peacock exclusive
Sat., Jan. 9, 1:00 p.m.	TBA	Netflix
Week 18 Saturday	Doubleheader, TBA	ESPN, ABC
Jan. 16 or 17	Wild Card game	Prime Video
Wild Card and Divisional rounds	ESPN games	ESPN, ABC
Sun., Feb. 14, 2027	Super Bowl LXI	ESPN, ABC

Sources: Sports Video Group, Amazon, NBC Sports, The Streamable. Sunday night games from Week 11 can be flexed, so check the week of.

Thanksgiving week alone touches four services in three days: Netflix on Wednesday, CBS, FOX and NBC on Thursday, Prime Video on Friday.

The cheapest stack, by kind of fan

Prices below are monthly and as of November 11, 2026. They assume you already have an antenna and a TV that can run the apps.

You want	Stack	Monthly cost
Your local team on Sundays	Antenna	$0
Local Sundays plus Thursdays	Antenna + Prime	$14.99
Every national window	Antenna + Prime + Netflix + Peacock + ESPN Unlimited	$68.96
Your team on a phone, anywhere locally	NFL+	$6.99
An out-of-market team	Add Sunday Ticket (season price)	Varies

Nobody needs that $68.96 stack every month. The schedule above tells you when each app earns its keep:

• November: Prime for Thursdays and Black Friday, Netflix for Thanksgiving Eve, ESPN Unlimited for Mondays.
• December: Prime and ESPN Unlimited again. Netflix for Christmas Day.
• January: Peacock for the Jan. 2 exclusive, Netflix for Jan. 9, Prime for its Wild Card game.

Most of these bill monthly, so you can start one the week you need it and cancel before it renews. Set a reminder for the renewal date on the day you subscribe, not the day after the game. A Netflix month started for Thanksgiving Eve, for example, can roll straight into Christmas and then lapse.

What to check before you pay

• Your market. Local CBS, FOX and NBC coverage depends on where you live, on an antenna and on a bundle alike.
• The plan tier. Cheaper tiers sometimes leave out live channels. Read the plan page, not the ad.
• The device. NFL+ live games are phone and tablet only. Confirm the app runs on your TV or streaming stick before Sunday.
• Flex weeks. NBC can move Sunday afternoon games into prime time, so a game on your CBS list can end up on Peacock.
• The renewal date. That’s where most of the money in this guide leaks out.

We’d start with the antenna and one app, then add only the month you’re missing a game. If Saturdays matter as much as Sundays in your house, our guide on where to watch college football maps that week the same way. If you’re watching in person instead, read the stadium clear-bag rules before you leave. More from the NFL desk.