Overview
- The NFL will drop overlapping Monday Night Football broadcasts and return to one national game each week, as confirmed at league meetings.
- Hans Schroeder, the league’s media chief, said fans disliked having to choose between concurrent games and struggled with later kickoffs on the East Coast.
- The matchups that had filled the doubleheader packages will move to other time slots as the schedule is reshaped for 2026.
- The league is weighing a Thanksgiving Eve game as one option for those contests.
- Recent seasons featured doubleheaders in Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 18 on ABC and ESPN, a format many fans panned on social media.