Texans-Jets draws 11.56 million for Thursday Night Football

Cayenne pepper and water might have helped Aaron Rodgers, but it didn’t affect 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 Titans-Steelers Week 9 game, which brought in 11.65 million.

Normally the New York market would bring more attention, but the Jets had lost five in a row. After a slow and ugly first half, some might have decided to watch something/something else.

Thursday Night Football averages 13.0 million viewers per game. it is an increase of four percent over last year’s average through week 9.