Texans-Jets draw 11.56 million for Thursday Night Football

Cayenne pepper and water might have helped Aaron Rodgers, but it didn’t sit well with the ratings.

Thursday night’s Texans-Jets game on Amazon Prime drew an audience of 11.56 million viewers. That’s down slightly from last year’s Week 9 Titans-Steelers game, which drew 11.65 million.

The New York market would normally provide more eyeballs, but the Jets had lost five in a row. After a sluggish and ugly first half, some might have decided to watch something/everything else.

Thursday Night Football averages 13.0 million viewers per match. that’s a four percent increase over last year’s average through week 9.