Viewer audiences for the first weekend of the NFL playoffs were down 9.3% from last year, a bigger decline than what the league experienced during the regular season.

The regular-season games averaged 17.5 million, a 2.2-percent decline from 2023.

The NFL wild-card round over the past week saw a decline in TV viewership compared to last year, including the weekend's most competitive contest, according to figures released Wednesday. The overall drop-off from the same round of games a year ago was 9.

The audience for the 2 CFP semifinal games averaged 19.2 million a -17% dropoff from last year. The 6 NFL wild card games averaged 27.8 million, -8% from last year.

Viewer audiences for the first weekend of the NFL playoffs were down 9.3% from last year, a bigger decline than what the league experienced year-to-year during the regular season. According to the NFL and ratings provider Nielsen,