Robert Griffin III has acquired a prominent new job more than eight months after being fired by ESPN.
The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback is expected to join Fox Sports and become the second-place college football game analyst. Athletics Andrew Marchand reported Thursday morning.
The 35-year-old replaced Brock Heard, who announced earlier this month that he would leave Fox and become the tight end coach of his son’s high school football team.
Griffin, who remained in his ESPN deal for two years, has yet to sign a deal with Fox, the report said, adding that he is expected to be combined with Jason Benetti, a voice of play.
Griffin called to a college football game and was an NFL studio analyst for ESPN, but lost the spot on “Monday Night Countdown” when the network hired Jason Kelse.
He and host Sam Ponder’s firing were a shock as he was let go just before the college and pro football season.
Ponder was the host of “Sunday NFL Countdown,” which was filled by Mike Greenberg in the 2024 season.
“If you don’t own anything, you’ll always be enslaved to something else. We just want to make sure we own what we’re doing. We’ll give it a go. As long as legacy media goes, there’s no bad blood with legacy media.”
“But there may be teams in FOX, NBC, CBS, Amazon, Netflix, or elsewhere I also enjoy working with.
Griffin, who hosts the podcast with his wife Grete, played for Washington, Cleveland and Baltimore in nine NFL seasons. He has been out of the league since being abandoned by the Ravens after the 2020 season.
He was a studio analyst for Netflix’s Christmas Day Double Header in 2024.
