Eagles-Commanders stays in prime time for Week 8

The NFL considered moving the Week 8 Eagles-Commanders game out of prime time. In the end, the NFL decided to stay put.

Via multiple reports, the rematch of the Week 1 game between NFC East rivals will be televised nationally by NBC and Peacock on Sunday night, November 1.

Rob Tornoe of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who first reported that the NFL was thinking about moving Eagles-Commanders out of the Sunday night spot, reports that the league strongly considered replacing it with Browns at Steelers.

In past years, there has been a rule requiring one of the two home-and-home games between division rivals to be televised on Sunday afternoon. The fact that the league considered moving Browns-Steelers to Sunday after their Week 4 game in Cleveland was played on Thursday night shows that, if the rule still exists, it’s more of a guideline.

Either way, it’ll be the 2-4 Eagles (who don’t have their starting quarterback) and the 1-4-1 Commanders instead of the 4-2 Browns and the 4-2 Steelers in a game that would have featured Mike Tomlin’s return to Pittsburgh and Cleveland’s reward for claiming first place in the AFC North after six weeks of the 2026 season.