ESPN NFL Primetime 2002 is the first football game to combine the NFL license
with the ESPN license. This NFL adaptation boasts a comprehensive franchise
mode that introduces some innovations in this standard mode. One of these is a
draft ticker, which puts your team on the clock each time it selects a player
in the draft. With the draft ticker on, it is important to scout college
players beforehand and analyze draft positions and team needs in order to
preselect your team’s draft candidates. In simulated games, NFL Primetime
gives a variety of coach options. Here you can customize your team’s
aggressiveness level in offense and blitz tendencies and even set spies on
more mobile quarterbacks for simulated games. Naturally, there are also
obvious franchise mode options such as the ability to draft, trade, and
sign/release free agents over multiple seasons.

The game also provides the standard football modes of exhibition and season
play.

The cutscenes between plays give the game a TV-style presentation, which
borrows graphics from the ESPN Primetime show.

Chris Berman and his Primetime sidekick, Tom Jackson, provide the commentary
during games.