The Bills–Jets Monday Night Football game was one of the most hyped-up matchups of the 2023 NFL season, mostly because it would be Aaron Rodgers’s New York debut on the big stage.
However, on the Jets’ first drive, Rodgers tore his Achilles, and it was later reported on Tuesday that the quarterback would miss the entire 2023 season.
Rodgers’s debut being cut short didn’t turn away viewers from tuning in apparently as the broadcast was ESPN’s most-watched Monday Night Football game since the network took over the weekly broadcast in 2006, drawing about 22.6 million viewers, the network announced Tuesday.