Seattle Seahawks tight end Greg Olsen has signed with FOX Sports to be their future No. 2 NFL game analyst, according to a report Monday from the New York Post.
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Seattle Seahawks tight end Greg Olsen has signed with FOX Sports to be their future No. 2 NFL game analyst, according to a report Monday from the New York Post.
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Olsen will join FOX after he retires football, per The Post. The veteran tight end was reportedly set to join the network after last season before signing with the Seahawks to extend his career.
FOX will continue waiting for Olsen if he decides to continue playing beyond 2020, the report added.
Olsen, 35, has long dabbled in the sportscasting space. He was a booth analyst for FOX Sports during the 2020 XFL season before the league shut down in wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. But he has publicly stated that he remains committed to his playing career for now.
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“If I wanted to go to TV or I wanted to move on from football, I could’ve done it three years ago,” Olsen told reporters in May. "This is really what I like doing. This has really been the passion of my whole career.”
Olsen, a Carolina Panthers legend and one of the best pass-catching tight ends in NFL history, signed a one-year deal with the Seahawks worth up to $7 million earlier this offseason. He adds to Seattle’s deep tight-end room, which also features Will Dissly, Jacob Hollister and 2020 fourth-round choice Colby Parkinson.
Olsen, a 13-year veteran, and the Panthers mutually agreed to part ways in January. He said he joined Seattle because of its winning culture and the opportunity to play with quarterback Russell Wilson.
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Ben Arthur covers sports for SeattlePI. He can be reached by email at benjaminarthur@seattlepi.com. Follow him on twitter at @benyarthur.