2025 NFL preseason streaming guide: How to watch every football game on NFL Network, YouTube TV and more

DirecTV is currently offering its Choice tier (typically $108+/month with fees) for just $78 (after fees) for your first month. (It’s $98/month after that).

DirecTV’s Choice tier gets you access to all the usual football suspects: NFL Network, ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, plus ACC Network, Big Ten Network, SEC Network and plenty more regional sports networks. (If you want to avoid paying the RSN fees, the Entertainment Tier has plenty of those same national channels you can catch NFL games on too. Whichever package you choose, you’ll get unlimited Cloud DVR storage.

The best part is that you can try all this out free for five days. So if you’re interested in trying out a live TV streaming service for football season but aren’t ready to commit, we recommend starting with DirecTV.

Fubo TV gives you access to ESPN, NFL Network, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC and 100-plus more live channels. Starting at $85/month, the live TV streaming service is definitely pricey (though certainly not the most expensive option on this list), but offers nearly every channel you’ll need to watch both the NFL preseason and regular season, and still leaves you with major savings compared to a traditional cable package. 

Fubo subscribers also get unlimited cloud DVR storage and plenty of non-sports-related channels too. The platform offers a free trial period, so you can check it out ahead of the 2025 NFL season and decide if it’s right for you this year. 

Right now, Fubo is also offering new subscribers $20 off their first month of the service, bringing your total for your first month (after the free trial ends) to $65. 

A basic $6.99 per month (or $40 annually) NFL+ subscription will get you live local and primetime regular and preseason NFL games exclusively on your phone or tablet, plus live audio for every game of the season across supported devices and access to NFL Network. 

NFL+ Premium, while a little pricier at $14.99 per month (or $80 annually) also includes access to NFL RedZone, plus full and condensed replays of every game across supported devices. NFL+ also offers a seven-day free trial. 

YouTube TV gets you nearly every channel you’ll need for the 2025 NFL season (and preseason), including Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN and NFL Network. 

Plus, YouTube TV is once again the home of NFL Sunday Ticket! The Sunday Ticket package, while pricey on its own ($480/year), gets you ALL the Sunday out-of-market games (160-plus games per season). You can also break the payment for this package down into $40/month for 12 months, and add NFL RedZone to that package, which brings the total to $43.50/month or $522 for the year. 

If you bundle Sunday Ticket with YouTube TV, which gets you all the primetime games and every out-of-market Sunday game, the cost for Sunday Ticket drops down to $378 for the year, or four non-cancellable monthly payments of $94.50, plus the price of YouTube TV (which you’ll have to keep paying for as long as you want to access your NFL Sunday Ticket package), which is currently $59.99/month for your first two months. The cost then rises to $82.99/month, in addition to the Sunday Ticket price. That all breaks down to $154.50/month for the first two months, and $177.50/month for the following two months. You can try YouTube TV (but not Sunday Ticket!) free for 10 days. 

One thing to note: YouTube TV livestreams have a tendency to run on a slight delay, which isn’t great if you’re trying to keep up with the game live, down to the exact second. 

This is a great package for a football superfan, but you’ll still need access to Prime Video and Netflix for exclusive games (and potentially Peacock too). 

Amazon Prime Video is the exclusive home for the 2025 preseason’s Patriots at Giants game, and Thursday Night Football games this upcoming NFL season. On top of Amazon Prime Video, an Amazon Prime subscription includes free shipping, exclusive deals, access to the Prime Day 2025 sale events, Amazon Music, a year of free GrubHub+ and more. 

A standard Amazon Prime subscription is $15 monthly or $139 annually, but discounts are available for students and those on qualified government assistance. You can try Amazon Prime free for 30 days.