NFL: Top four primetime games not to miss on ESPN in 2022

Offseason NFL 2022 - Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) celebrates with teammates after completing a touchdown pass making him the all time leader in touchdown passes in the first quarter during their football game Saturday, December 25, 2021, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Samantha Madar/USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinGpg Aaron Rodges Record Breaking Moment 01262022 0003
Offseason NFL 2022 - Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) celebrates with teammates after completing a touchdown pass making him the all time leader in touchdown passes in the first quarter during their football game Saturday, December 25, 2021, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. Samantha Madar/USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinGpg Aaron Rodges Record Breaking Moment 01262022 0003
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The NFL season will get underway as preseason begins to open around the league. For fans, ESPN will show the best from their 2022 schedule.

Finally, the NFL season will get underway as preseason begins to open around the league. With the draft and free agency behind us, analysts and prognosticators will get to see what they got right and what they got wrong.

At the end of the day, it’s what ultimately transpires on the field. Inevitably, the NFL schedule produces a few surprises. It can also have some real duds pop up, even in their primetime window on ESPN.

Still, the league has a pretty incredible package on deck at the World Wide Leader. Contenders and would-be contenders, as well as a few rematches from the hotly contested 2021 season, will get their shot under the white-hot lights of Monday Night Football.

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Oct 31, 2021; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram II (14) shakes hands with NFL analyst Troy Aikman during pre-game warmups before the game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

It’s a new era for ESPN and the NFL with Troy Aikman and Joe Buck

ESPN will also introduce a new broadcast team featuring Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. Aikman spent the last 22 years with FOX as an analyst, while Buck has called NFL games for the last 28 seasons. The 2022 NFL season will be Buck and Aikman’s 21st together.

Aikman and Tony Romo, both former Cowboys quarterbacks, are arguably the most high-profile NFL analysts on the airwaves.

Aikman will also be the first Hall of Fame player to become a member of the Monday Night broadcast team since MNF moved from ABC to ESPN in 2006.

Of note, he will be the first former Cowboys QB in the Monday booth since Don Meredith, who was part of the first-ever MNF team with two stints beginning in to 1970-1973 and 1977-1984.

NFL Spin Zone has selected four prime-time games that will draw a lot of eyes to the 2022 Monday Night Football schedule. Those are absolutely must-see-tv, sure to draw huge viewership numbers and a ton of debate.