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NFL: National Football League Discussion. The place to discuss all NFL related things Founded 2008 · 12.9M members

12.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 63.1K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
12.9Mmembers
63.1Kbest post
24.6Kmost comments
1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 40% 13%
Video 45% Link 40% Text 13% Question 1% Image 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Highlight 433 Game Thread 45 Rumor 43 Roster Move 42 Free Talk 11 News 9 Highlights 6 Injury 4 Serious 4 Breaking News 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Eagles reject White House visit

↑ 63.1K 💬 3.6K link 2025

[Highlight] Cooper DeJean pick-six on his birthday

↑ 47.3K 💬 1.6K video 2025

[Highlight] NO vs MIN - Diggs game-winning TD reception

↑ 45.6K 💬 6.2K video 2018

[Highlight] Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show

↑ 42.9K 💬 4.7K video 2026

[Highlight] Jayden Daniels throws up a last second Hail Mary and Noah Brown catches it to win the game!

↑ 42.1K 💬 2.4K video 2024

[Highlight] Dolphins score on the final play to beat the Pats

↑ 40.1K 💬 3.5K video 2018

[Yates] The Chiefs have now been eliminated from the playoffs.

↑ 37.7K 💬 2.4K link 2025

[Tom Brady] These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it’s not now. I love m…

↑ 34.8K 💬 5.5K link 2022

[Highlight] Caleb Williams unreal touchdown to Cole Kmet!

↑ 34.7K 💬 2.5K video 2026

New England Patriots are the Super Bowl LI Champions

↑ 34.5K 💬 13.1K text 2017

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/nfl, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/nfl?
r/nfl ("NFL: National Football League Discussion") describes itself this way: The place to discuss all NFL related things. It was founded in 2008 and has 12.9M members.
How many members does r/nfl have?
r/nfl has about 12.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1K of its posts; the biggest reached 63.1K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nfl?
"Eagles reject White House visit" reached 63.1K upvotes and 3.6K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nfl.
What subreddits are similar to r/nfl?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PrequelMemes, r/MurderedByWords, r/meirl, r/PublicFreakout, r/teenagers, r/PewdiepieSubmissions.
What kind of posts do best on r/nfl?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are video posts and 40% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nfl?
Across 1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (18.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 04:00 UTC (13.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (11.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/nfl?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nfl has 30.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/nfl, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.