The NFL was overtaken with national anthem protests on Sunday, and in turn, there was a major looming question about how the TV ratings for the games in Week 3 would look.

Well, now we know.

As ESPN's Darren Rovell reported, the ratings for the Oakland Raiders vs. Washington Redskins primetime game saw a "drastic" decline.

Sunday Night Football's decline was more drastic, as Sunday's game between the Redskins and the Oakland Raiders was the lowest rated Week 3 game, from metered markets, since 2006. Ratings for the game were down 9 percent versus last week (Packers-Falcons) and 11 percent versus last year's Week 3 game. For comparison's sake, all three games were relative blowouts, though the previous games featured teams that generally draw more interest -- the Green Bay Packers last week and the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears last year. The Packers- Falcons game from last week still soundly beat the Redskins-Raiders game, even though it was going up against the Primetime Emmy Awards.

That's pretty shocking. While Rovell states that the previous game featured teams that draw more interest, there's no question that both the Raiders and Redskins move the needle and draw interest.

Seeing a decline from last week's Packers vs. Falcons game is understandable, but this being the lowest rated Week 3 game since 2006 is incredible.

On another note, NBC Sports PR tweeted out an interesting stat, which shows just how much of each market was watching the Raiders vs. Redskins game, and those numbers were pretty massive.

Top markets for Raiders-Redskins on NBC: Wash. D.C. 23.3/40; Richmond 22.1/33; Norfolk 19.8/31; Sacramento 17.5/32; S.F./Oak 17.2/35 — NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) September 25, 2017

Top markets (#6-10) for Oakland-Washington: New Orleans 17.2/24; Denver 16.2/27; Buffalo 15.4/24; KC 14.8/24; Las Vegas 14.5/23 — NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) September 25, 2017

The second number in each of those is the percent of the market that was tuned into the game, and specifically, those top five markets being above 31 percent is huge.

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For those curious, Rovell also pointed out that CBS saw its national games (Bengals vs. Packers and Chiefs vs. Chargers) go down just one percent in the ratings compared to last season. Fox's one game (Giants vs. Eagles) was down 16 percent from last year.