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Robert Griffin III has landed a prominent new job more than eight months after he was fired by ESPN.
The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback is expected to join Fox Sports to be it’s No. 2 college football game analyst, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported Thursday morning.
The 35-year-old is replacing Brock Huard, who announced earlier this month he was leaving Fox to become the tight ends coach on his son’s high school football team.
Griffin, who had two years left on his ESPN deal, hasn’t yet signed a contract with Fox, the report said, adding he’s expected to be paired with play-by-play voice Jason Benetti.
Griffin called college football games and was an NFL studio analyst for ESPN, though he lost his spot on “Monday Night Countdown” when the network hired Jason Kelce.
His and host Sam Ponder’s firings came as a shock as they were let go right before the start of the college and pro football seasons.
Ponder was the host of “Sunday NFL Countdown,” a role that was filled 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 told Jim Rome weeks after he got 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 with his wife Grete, played for Washington, Cleveland and Baltimore across nine 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.
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