Published October 15, 2026 11:10 PM
The offseason game of broadcaster roulette will be intriguing, and expensive.
With the Monday Night Football spot at ESPN/ABC opening up if Troy Aikman leaves, there will be more than a few who want it. John Ourand of Puck drops a juicy nugget in the latest edition of The Varsity newsletter.
Take it away, John: “My best sources are predicting that Greg Olsen will wind up in ESPN’s Monday Night Football booth next season.”
It’s just a prediction, but Ourand wouldn’t throw something like that around unless he had good reason to believe it.
Hovering over any of the top spots will be Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who has the chops and the cachet to pick his spot and name his price.
Olsen, who has won multiple Emmys (including the most recent one, from his spot on the Fox “B” team) seems destined to land with a No. 1 team, somewhere. Whether that’s ESPN, CBS, or Prime Video, it seems inevitable that Olsen, who was bumped to the bench because Fox wanted Tom Brady, will once again have a prime spot, somewhere.