NFL on ESPN engagement report
@ESPNNFL - 4.2M followers on X
Measured over 148 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 386 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 148 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 3,791 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 126K times each, and 0.307% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 148 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.0K interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #azcardinals, #seahawks, #browns.
Measured over 148 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #azcardinals, #seahawks, #browns.
Compared with accounts its own size
NFL on ESPN's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 28% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.009%, NFL on ESPN sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 17, 202623x their median
The Cowboys' defense with the addition of Von Miller 👀 https://t.co/CLfdwxFnvn
- Aug 15, 202620x their median
It's been over 10 years for OBJ 👏 (📸: @nfl) https://t.co/MLbRJyfhDn
- Aug 23, 202619x their median
Buccaneers rookie Rueben Bain Jr. is rocking a face mask inspired by the Batman villain Bane 🔥 https://t.co/K2meCG7KcK
- Aug 24, 202616x their median
Maryland Made‼️ With Stefon Diggs signing for the Commanders this season, he is now set to complete the trifecta of playing high school, college and NFL home games in his home state of Maryland 🙌 https://t.co/Bc2uNMgivY
- Aug 30, 202616x their median
A moment that wasn't supposed to go his way is now a memory that gets Alshon Jeffery choked 🥺 🍿 Super Bowl LXI is on ESPN and ABC on Feb. 14, 2027. https://t.co/Tu1SLIRDIh
- Aug 15, 202612x their median
OBJ loves being back home 💙 📸: Mike Coppola/Getty Images https://t.co/1LtiFa1QSc
- Aug 24, 20269.3x their median
"It's about 230 million dollars. ... It hasn't worked out. ... Shedeur Sanders should be the starter." Marcus Spears weighs in on Deshaun Watson being named the Browns starting QB on the @RichEisenShow. https://t.co/WlGXLcdppS
- Aug 21, 20269.1x their median
Breaking: The Texans are signing WRs Sterling Shepard and Zay Jones, sources tell @MikeGarafolo and @RapSheet. The two will join Houston after the loss of Jayden Higgins to a torn ACL, who was placed on IR today. https://t.co/YA0TrYU16R
- Aug 23, 20268.4x their median
Dwight Smith makes his case for being the MVP of Super Bowl XXXVII 👀 🍿 Super Bowl LXI is on ESPN and ABC on Feb. 14, 2027. https://t.co/YyFTaYD9O6
- Aug 14, 20268.1x their median
The album is legit good good @PatMcAfeeShow
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 386 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 148 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 3,791 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 126K times each, and 0.307% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 148 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.0K interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #azcardinals, #seahawks, #browns.
- What is NFL on ESPN's engagement rate on X?
- NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 148 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,214,398 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, NFL on ESPN sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @ESPNNFL have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @ESPNNFL post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 7.23 posts per day across the measured window.