In an effort to help make “Thursday Night Football” a primetime event, Fox is hoping to use Hall of Famer Troy Aikman as part of its pregame show that will either emanate from the site of each game or from the network’s Los Angeles studios, The Post has learned.

Fox’s goal is to give Thursday night a big-game feel that can stick out among the saturation of NFL games on primetime three nights a week and all day on Sunday, according to officials who have been briefed on the network’s plans. Aikman would still team with Joe Buck on Sunday’s lead game on Fox.

Fox has some major plans for Thursday, which begin with the top NFL TV free agent this offseason, Peyton Manning. The broadcast network is competing with ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” to try to lure Manning for its Thursday night game telecasts. If Manning decides to call games, he would give either Monday or Thursday a little extra shine.

Fox is expected to be able to offer Manning a playoff game, as the NFL will soon make it official that it is switching the one wild-card game ESPN had to FOX, which the Sports Business Journal previously reported. Besides the postseason game, Manning could be enticed by a studio role when the playoffs and Super Bowl come around, if he desires even more prominence.

The current plan for Fox is to have one broadcast crew for Thursday nights. Fox wants to figure out the analyst position before tackling who will be on play-by-play. For the pregame show on Thursdays, CBS and NBC used a combination of their broadcasters with the NFL Network, but Fox may go it alone.

Fox will broadcast 11 games per season, at about $60 million per game. The deal is for five seasons. The network will still continue with its NFC-centric package on Sunday afternoons.

Fox and the NFL Network are teaming up for draft coverage next month, again challenging ESPN. While Fox will carry an NFL Network simulcast, Aikman may join the draft coverage. One source said it was 50-50, at this point.

Fox is pushing its lead college analyst, Joel Klatt, to be part of NFL Network’s coverage, a source said.

In more Fox news, the network had current Browns lineman Joe Thomas and former Bears coach John Fox in for auditions, according to sources. Thomas was particularly impressive, according to one source. The two are being considered for a variety of roles on both Fox and Fox Sports 1. Thomas also went through the ESPN “Car Wash” this offseason, which often is used as a tryout of sorts, so don’t rule out Bristol. Thomas has not decided yet if he will play next season.

Clicker Consulting: In this spot, we’ll offer some free advice to broadcasters, which we are sure the recipients will appreciate.

Leading off is the new “Afternoon Drive Show,” featuring Chris Carlin, Maggie Gray and Bart Scott on WFAN. Lady and gentlemen, when you do an interview with a guest, don’t have the hosts ask one question each, because it leads to disjointed interviews and a more difficult listen — especially, as is often the case, when each question is on a different topic.

Instead, designate one of the three to ask two or even three questions so it becomes more of a conversation and the guest is heard. It allows for a flow and a much better listen than hopscotching from one question to the next.

A little inside baseball: Over this past summer, Yankees lead TV play-by-player and ESPN New York afternoon host Michael Kay hired Excel’s Casey Close and Jim Murray as his agents. Close is most famous for being Derek Jeter’s player agent and is considered at least among the top five agents in baseball. The Yankees and Close feuded over Jeter’s final contract.

Murray represents a lot of high-profile players, including Dellin Betances. Last spring, after the Yankees beat Murray and Betances in an arbitration case, Yankees president Randy Levine held a conference call, blasting Murray for trying to have the All-Star Betances paid like a closer instead of a setup man.

Quick hits: For the first time since 1982, the NCAA Selection will not be on CBS. TBS will broadcast the Selection Show, as well as the complete Final Four. The two entities will combine on the productions so Jim Nantz, Grant Hill and Bill Raftery will have the call of the championship game. … Yankees fans are ready for the season. On Friday, their exhibition day game on YES outrated regular-season night games from the Knicks, all three local NHL hockey teams and the NBA on ESPN. … That viral video of the Ardsley High Schooler stealing and heaving a game-winner that has been viewed nearly 2 million times was shot by sports writer Kevin Devaney Jr. Devaney is a high school sports savant, who was let go by News 12 Varsity at the end of last year. Devaney was also on hand, as an analyst, for the last viral high school video, when New Rochelle hit what became known as “ The Shot ” five years ago to the day.