Panthers tight end Greg Olsen may or may not come back for another season. Given the sudden retirement of Luke Kuechly and the comments Olsen made following Week 17, it would come as no surprise if he has played his last game in the NFL.
While his immediate future is murky, everybody knows what comes next once his playing career is officially over. Olsen already has some solid experience working as an analyst for Fox. He’s going to be getting a whole lot more soon, too.
According to a report by Joe Person at the Athletic, Olsen will be a part of Fox’s Super Bowl LIV coverage this year and will also work five games for the rebooted XFL.
There’s no word on which XFL games Olsen will be commentating on, but the league is slated to begin play the week after the Super Bowl, with the first games on Saturday, Feb. 8.
Once it becomes his full-time job, the model for Olsen to follow is Tony Romo, who was an excellent and underrated quarterback for the Cowboys but seems born to talk about football on TV. ESPN is expected to offer Romo a huge deal to try to lure him away from CBS, somewhere in the range of $10 million to $14 million.
Olsen may not be able to match Romo’s wizardry for predicting plays, but his analysis is both insightful and digestible for casual fans. We very much look forward to hearing him talk about the game for years to come.
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