As had been anticipated since January, Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce formally introduced his retirement from taking part in within the NFL on Monday afternoon.
Round that very same time, Andrew Marchand of The Athletic reported that NBC, CBS and ESPN are “the likeliest touchdown spots” assuming Kelce needs to start out working as an in-studio NFL analyst subsequent season.
“For each NBC’s and CBS’ NFL pregame exhibits on Sundays, Kelce might simply commute from his dwelling in Philadelphia, making the nationwide TV jobs a one- or two-day work week,” Marchand defined. “NBC’s program is situated in Stamford, Conn., whereas CBS’ is in Manhattan.”
It was beforehand reported that Kelce met with ESPN and Fox Sports activities after the Eagles fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers within the wild-card spherical of the playoffs “to debate presumably linking up.” Again in January, Marchand revealed in a chunk revealed by the New York Publish that CBS’ “The NFL In the present day” program would have a number of openings after Tremendous Bowl LVIII.
Particularly, CBS personalities Nate Burleson, Invoice Cowher, Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms are presently free brokers. Ben Axelrod of Terrible Asserting talked about in February that CBS in-game analysts Matt Ryan, Jason McCourty and Ross Tucker could possibly be choices for “The NFL In the present day” if Kelce indicators elsewhere.
“Whereas NBC and CBS are seen because the favorites, ESPN is at all times a stalking horse and has curiosity,” Marchand mentioned about Kelce on Monday. “It has quite a lot of exhibits from its marquees on Sunday and Monday to its every day NFL applications.”
Marchand additionally recommended that Kelce and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs All-Professional tight finish Travis Kelce, Jason’s brother, might transfer their in style “New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce” podcast to Amazon en path to Jason turning into a contributor for that outlet’s “Thursday Evening Soccer” protection.
Travis is predicted to run it again with the Chiefs as they try to turn out to be the primary franchise in historical past to win three straight Tremendous Bowl championships, however he and Jason might finally turn out to be a bundle deal for a corporation akin to Amazon.
Jason and his spouse, Kylie, had been spotlighted in an Amazon documentary that detailed how the Chiefs and Eagles accomplished journeys to Tremendous Bowl LVII in the course of the 2022 season.
