2022 NFL Season Trivia
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60 free 2022 NFL Season trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The 2022 NFL season began with the Bills beating the champion Rams on opening night and ended with the Chiefs edging the Eagles 38-35 in Glendale after a late holding call and a Harrison Butker field goal. This NFL trivia 2022 quiz covers the whole year: the offseason trade frenzy that sent Russell Wilson, Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill and A. J. Brown to new teams, Tom Brady's 40-day retirement, the Deshaun Watson suspension, the first regular-season game in Germany, and the Christmas tripleheader. There are questions on the records that fell (Justin Fields' 178 rushing yards, the Vikings' 33-point comeback, Ryan Stonehouse's punting average, Mahomes' 5,608 total yards), on the awards handed out at NFL Honors, on Damar Hamlin's collapse and the game the league canceled, and on Super Bowl LVII itself: the Kelce brothers, Rihanna, the Tush Push, the Corn Dog plays and the longest punt return in Super Bowl history. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the 2022 season and Super Bowl LVII, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which head coach beat the Eagles, his former team, 38–35 in Super Bowl LVII?
Andy Reid
Andy Reid. He won more games than any coach in Eagles history without ever winning a Super Bowl there, then beat them to claim his second title with Kansas City.
Q 02Super Bowl LVII was played at which venue?
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The NFL spent two years preparing the grass, yet players from both teams kept slipping on it and several changed their cleats during the game.
Q 03Who was named regular-season MVP for 2022 after leading the league in passing yards and touchdowns?
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes. He then brought Kansas City back from ten points down at halftime of the Super Bowl, scrambling 26 yards on the winning drive, to take that game's MVP award as well.
Q 04Which singer headlined the Super Bowl LVII halftime show, her first live show in over five years?
Rihanna
Rihanna. Viewers spent the show guessing, and her representative confirmed straight afterwards that she had performed while pregnant with her second child.
Q 05Which kicker's late field goal won Super Bowl LVII for Kansas City?
Harrison Butker
Harrison Butker. His 27-yard kick with eight seconds left followed a holding call on Eagles cornerback James Bradberry, who admitted afterwards that he had tugged the receiver's jersey.
Q 06Super Bowl LVII was nicknamed after which surname because two brothers faced each other in it?
Kelce
Kelce. Travis's Chiefs beat Jason's Eagles while their mother, Donna, watched in a half-red, half-green jersey with one son's number on the front and the other's on the back.
Q 07Which Eagles quarterback tied a Super Bowl record with three rushing touchdowns but still lost Super Bowl LVII?
Jalen Hurts
Jalen Hurts. His 70 rushing yards set a Super Bowl record for a quarterback, and two years later he broke it with 72 while beating the same opponent in a rematch as the game's MVP.
Q 08What nickname is given to the Eagles' signature quarterback sneak, a short-yardage staple of their run to Super Bowl LVII?
The Tush Push
The Tush Push. Teammates line up behind the quarterback and drive him forward at the snap, and it worked so reliably that a rival club formally proposed banning it in 2025.
Q 09The Chiefs' two fourth-quarter touchdown passes in Super Bowl LVII came on misdirection plays named after which snack?
Corn Dogs
Corn Dogs. The receiver starts in motion across the formation, then stops and doubles back toward the sideline, and both times the Eagles' defenders followed the fake and left him wide open.
Q 10Whose 65-yard return set the record for the longest punt return in Super Bowl history?
Kadarius Toney
Kadarius Toney. Picked up in a midseason trade, he ran the punt back to the Eagles' 5-yard line minutes after catching the go-ahead touchdown, beating a 61-yard mark from Super Bowl 50.
Q 11Which network's Super Bowl LVII broadcast, averaging 115.1 million viewers, was briefly the most-watched US program ever?
Fox
Fox. The first count was 113 million; a review set off by an impossible viewer spike credited to NFL Network added two million and lifted the game past the 2015 Super Bowl's record.
Q 12Which country singer performed the national anthem before Super Bowl LVII?
Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton. Oscar-winning actor Troy Kotsur performed his rendition in American Sign Language, and it was the third straight Super Bowl to hand the anthem to a country singer.
Q 13Which company replaced Pepsi as Super Bowl halftime show sponsor starting with Super Bowl LVII?
Apple Music
Q 21Whose record for most career sacks taken, set only a year earlier, was broken in 2022?
Ben Roethlisberger
Ben Roethlisberger. He retired with 554 sacks taken, having passed Brett Favre, who had held the mark for 11 seasons; totals like that take a long career, yet his own reign lasted one season.
Q 22Which quarterback was suspended for the first 11 games of 2022 after the NFL appealed his original six-game ban?
Deshaun Watson
Deshaun Watson. A retired judge set six games; the league appealed for at least a full season, and the settlement landed on 11 games, a $5 million fine and mandatory treatment.
Q 23Which team gave a quarterback a record $230 million fully guaranteed in 2022?
Cleveland Browns
Apple Music. Pepsi bowed out after ten years, and the first show under the new name drew a bigger television audience than the game around it averaged.
Q 14What was historic about the military flyover before Super Bowl LVII?
It was crewed entirely by women
It was crewed entirely by women. The Navy flew the formation to mark 50 years since it first admitted women to flight school, where six of the first eight earned their wings.
Q 15Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field after tackling which Bengals receiver?
Tee Higgins
Tee Higgins. Hamlin's heart stopped moments after the tackle; revived on the field with CPR and a defibrillator, he was fully cleared to play football again less than four months later.
Q 16The canceled Bills–Bengals game was the first regular-season game not made up since which event?
The 1987 players' strike
The 1987 players' strike. Replaying the game would have pushed the playoffs back a week, so the NFL left Buffalo and Cincinnati on 16 games while every other team played 17.
Q 17The former Washington Football Team adopted which permanent name before the 2022 NFL season?
Commanders
Commanders. The club retired its old nickname in the summer of 2020 under pressure from sponsors, then spent two seasons with no nickname at all while it settled on a replacement.
Q 18Which German city hosted the NFL's first regular-season game in Germany in 2022?
Munich
Munich. Tampa Bay beat Seattle at Allianz Arena, where nearly 70,000 fans broke into "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as the game wound down.
Q 19Which quarterback announced his retirement on 1 February 2022, then un-retired 40 days later?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady. The first retirement never reached the league's transaction wire, and he came back to set single-season records for completions and attempts before retiring "for good" a year later.
Q 20Which running back led the NFL in rushing in 2022, months after his team declined his fifth-year contract option?
Josh Jacobs
Josh Jacobs. He answered the snub with 1,653 rushing yards and the first Jim Brown Award for the league's top rusher, and his club used its franchise tag to stop him leaving the next spring.
Cleveland Browns. No NFL contract had ever guaranteed so much money, and it went to a quarterback who had not played a single game the previous season.
Q 24Seattle traded quarterback Russell Wilson to which team in March 2022?
Denver Broncos
Denver Broncos. They gave up two first-round and two second-round picks plus three players, then benched him late in his second season and released him the following spring.
Q 25Green Bay traded star receiver Davante Adams to which team in March 2022 for first- and second-round picks?
Las Vegas Raiders
Las Vegas Raiders. The move reunited him with Derek Carr, his quarterback at Fresno State, but the club benched Carr before that first season ended and released him soon after.
Q 26Kansas City traded receiver Tyreek Hill to which team in March 2022?
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins. They made him the league's highest-paid receiver, while Kansas City took five draft picks in return and still finished with the NFL's best offense and the title.
Q 27Carolina traded running back Christian McCaffrey to which team in October 2022?
San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers. In his second game for them he threw, ran and caught a touchdown, only the fourth player since the 1970 merger to do all three in one game.
Q 28Which receiver did the Eagles acquire from Tennessee on draft night in April 2022?
A. J. Brown
A. J. Brown. Philadelphia gave up first- and third-round picks, handed him a $100 million contract straight away, and got 1,496 receiving yards, a franchise record, in his first season.
Q 29Jacksonville used the first overall pick of the 2022 NFL draft on which Georgia defender?
Travon Walker
Travon Walker. Seen as a mid-first-round pick before the scouting combine, he tested so well there that Jacksonville took him ahead of Aidan Hutchinson, the top-ranked prospect on Mel Kiper's board.
Q 30Which quarterback, the final pick of the 2022 draft, was that year's "Mr. Irrelevant"?
Brock Purdy
Brock Purdy. Third on the depth chart in September, he took over when both quarterbacks ahead of him were injured, then won all five of his regular-season starts and two playoff games.