INDIANAPOLIS — In the annual pre-Super Bowl State of the League address, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the 2012 schedule will include five more Thursday night games.

Goodell said the midweek matchups on NFL Network will start in Week 2 and run through Week 15 next season.

The expansion means each of the 32 teams will play at least one prime time game during the season. Each team also will have to play on a Thursday following a game the previous Sunday.

This past season, the first Thursday night game on NFL Network was in Week 10 and ran through Week 16.

In a press release confirming Goodell’s statements, the NFL said NBC will continue to broadcast the Thursday night season opener, and the network will gain access to the Thanksgiving night game in 2012.

The NFL said “Thursday Night Football” averaged a record 6.2 million viewers in 2011, double the total from its inaugural season in 2006.