Jason McCourty, a 13-year NFL veteran and former Super Bowl champion, is reportedly joining ESPN this season as a regular analyst on its studio shows, according to a report from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic. In addition to his work at ESPN, McCourty will work as a full-time NFL game analyst on CBS working with play-by-play announcer Andrew Catalon and Tiki Barber. McCourty opted against relocating to Los Angeles with Good Morning Football on NFL Network, ending his time with the program after parts of three years. It remains unknown as to when McCourty would be slated to make his debut as an analyst on the network.
Under his new role, McCourty is expected to appear in studio twice per week and will contribute to shows such as Get Up, First Take and NFL Live. On the weekends, he will be a member of the NFL on CBS broadcast team, entering his second season with the property after previously working with Chris Lewis and Ross Tucker. In an interview last month with Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated, McCourty articulated that he could not think of any reason aside from “selfish ambition within the industry” to continue working on Good Morning Football from Los Angeles.
McCourty’s twin brother, Devin, also works in the sports media business as an analyst on the Football Night in America pregame show for NBC Sports and co-host of PFT Live on Tuesdays. The brothers won a Super Bowl together in 2018 as teammates on the New England Patriots. For the last two seasons, they have worked together in the broadcast booth for local productions of Patriots preseason games.
ESPN outlined a content organization restructuring on Monday under president of content Burke Magnus that draws a distinction between sports news and entertainment and sports production. David Roberts will continue to oversee the cross-platform editorial, news and coverage for non-sports specific studio programs including SportsCenter, Get Up, First Take, The Pat McAfee Show, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption. In his new role of executive vice president and executive editor for sports news and entertainment, he will have three direct reports in Maria Soares, Mike Foss and Chris Buckle.
Mike McQuade was named the executive vice president of sports production and will have four direct reports in Mark Gross, Meg Aronowitz, Kate Jackson and a senior vice president to be named. The division will oversee game presentations and surrounding studio coverage for the network’s broadcast properties.
