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Jason Kelce played in the NFL for a long time as the standout center for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Now with a large platform to talk about the sport, Kelce recently admitted he's worried that the NFL is tanking its most valuable asset.
That asset: Sunday football.
"Sunday is the NFL," Kelce said on the New Heights podcast.
The problem, in this viewpoint, is that the league continues to push into other days of the week.
The NFL looks for any and all opportunities to put games on in primetime windows or on holidays, even if that means moving more and more games off of Sundays.
"Outside of going to church in the morning, if you’re still religious and you do that, Sunday is like where so many games happen, and that’s what you grow up, and you gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday,” Kelce said. “It’s an institution at this point, the NFL playing games on Sunday. With every day that we keep adding in there, we’re getting away from that just a little bit."
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Kelce added that he is worried "that we're getting away from that just a little bit by building too many of this."
According to Awful Announcing, the NFL is airing less Sunday afternoon games in 2026 than it did in 2025, and it has 14 less in that window than in 2021 (the first year of 18 regular season weeks).
A lot of this is probably a matter of preference for individual fans, some of whom probably are much more able to watch on Sunday, and some who might enjoy the chance to watch a variety of teams in standalone games.
But Kelce is right that the Sunday slate is becoming less and less intriguing each year. It'll certainly change the vibe of the NFL a bit over time if this continues.
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