NFL Rookie of the Week awards

The NFL recognizes a number of awards for its players and coaches at its annual NFL Honors presentation. The most prestigious award is the AP Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. Other major awards include the AP Offensive Player of the Year, AP Defensive Player of the Year, AP Comeback Player of the Year, and the AP Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year awards.Another prestigious award is the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, which recognizes a player's off-field work in addition to his on-field performance.The NFL Coach of the Year award is the highest coaching award Madden Coins.The NFL also gives out weekly awards such as the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Players of the Week and the Pepsi MAX NFL Rookie of the Week awards.

In addition to the regional games, the league also has packages of telecasts, mostly in prime time, that are carried nationwide. CBS also carries a package of five games on Thursday nights. NBC broadcasts the primetime Sunday Night Football package and seven Thursday night games, which includes the NFL Kickoff game that starts the regular season and a primetime Thanksgiving Day game. ESPN carries all Monday Night Football games.The NFL's own network, NFL Network, carries all Thursday Night Football games, including those on CBS and NBC (except the Thanksgiving and kickoff games, which remain exclusive to NBC).

The NFL announced in March 2015 that it would suspend its blackout policy for at least the 2015 season.According to Nielsen, the NFL regular season since 2012 was watched by at least 200 million individuals, accounting for 80% of all television households in the United States and 69% of all potential viewers in the United States. NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. Super Bowls account for the 22 most-watched programs (based on total audience) in US history, including a record 167 million people that watched Super Bowl XLVIII, the conclusion to the 2013 season.