Robert Griffin III has landed a outstanding new job greater than eight months after he was fired by ESPN.
The previous Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback is anticipated to affix Fox Sports activities to be it’s No. 2 school soccer sport analyst, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported Thursday morning.
The 35-year-old is changing Brock Huard, who introduced earlier this month he was leaving Fox to change into the tight ends coach on his son’s highschool soccer crew.
Griffin, who had two years left on his ESPN deal, hasn’t but signed a contract with Fox, the report stated, including he’s anticipated to be paired with play-by-play voice Jason Benetti.
Griffin known as school soccer video games and was an NFL studio analyst for ESPN, although he misplaced his spot on “Monday Night Countdown” when the community employed Jason Kelce.
His and host Sam Ponder’s firings got here as a shock as they had been let go proper earlier than the beginning of the faculty and professional soccer seasons.
Ponder was the host of “Sunday NFL Countdown,” a job that was stuffed by Mike Greenberg for the 2024 season.
“If you don’t own anything, then you’re always going to be a slave to something else. I just want to make sure that we own what we’re doing, we have a good time doing it, and as far as legacy media goes, I’ve got no bad blood with legacy media,” Griffin informed Jim Rome weeks after he acquired fired.
“But there could be teams at Fox, NBC, CBS, Amazon, Netflix or anywhere else that I would enjoy working with as well. I’m not gonna close the door on anything.”
Griffin, who hosts a podcast together with his spouse Grete, performed for Washington, Cleveland and Baltimore throughout 9 NFL seasons; he’s been out of the league since being waived by the Ravens after the 2020 season.
He was a studio analyst for Netflix’s Christmas Day doubleheader in 2024.
