The NFL just scored its best TV ratings of the season as high-scoring cliffhangers kept football fans glued to their sets and the league continued to distance itself from the kneeling controversy.

In Week 6, five of six key telecasts were either even or up significantly versus last year, resulting in an average increase of 11 percent — the sharpest weekly improvement all season.

“Monday Night Football” — a nail-biting, 33-30 Green Bay Packers victory over the San Francisco 49ers — led Nielsen rating gains with a 38 percent increase over the comparable game a year earlier.

The ESPN telecast also demonstrated the preference of viewers for close games with lots of scoring.

NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” with a 34 percent ratings increase, was equally dramatic: The New England Patriots’ field goal in the game’s final second put the final score at 43-40, handing the Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season.

SNF’s 14.6 overnight rating was not only its highest since Week 1 of the 2017 season, but also tied the record for Week 6 since NBC began broadcasting the prime-time game 13 years ago.

Only the late-Sunday doubleheader on CBS — a blowout that saw the Dallas Cowboys trounce the Jacksonville Jaguars, 40-7 — failed to maintain its audience. The game’s 12 overnight — the lowest rating for a late doubleheader this season — represented a 14 percent decline from the previous year’s game. A ratings point equals 1 percent of TV-watching households.

Still, for all six key telecasts of Week 6, the average ratings gains boosted the season-to-date increase to 3 percent — up from 1 percent in Week 5.

While the gains don’ t guarantee the past two season’s viewership declines were an aberration, at least one sports broadcaster is confident the NFL’s scheduling will keep the turnaround going.

“We continue to be bullish about the remainder of the schedule,” he said.