Despite a strong, decade-long career in the NFL, Nate Burleson has quickly become just as well-known as a television host as he is for being a football analyst.<\/p>\n
Since 2021, Burleson has worked as a cohost of\u00a0CBS Mornings, one of the most prominent roles in daytime network television. And in addition to his role as a panelist on\u00a0The NFL Today for CBS Sports, Burleson this spring made his debut as a studio host on the network\u2019s NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n The telegenic and sharp Burleson is clearly a rising star, interviewing politicians in the morning before breaking down the biggest matchups on the gridiron each Sunday.<\/p>\n Burleson\u2019s impressive career trajectory could make him the rare former athlete to become a TV studio host, as CBS legend James Brown approaches age 80.<\/p>\n In an interview with Front Office Sports released this week<\/a>, Burleson confirmed his interest in the hosting role, but said he is not trying to replace Brown as host of The NFL Today, describing Brown as a mentor and insisting he wants Brown to occupy that seat as long as he wants.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, 100 percent,\u201d Burleson said when asked of his interest. \u201cI say that with the fullest sense of humility as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want James Brown around for as long as I can have him. I have learned so much, I wouldn\u2019t be the person I am on-camera if it wasn\u2019t for JB. So selfishly, I want to keep learning from one of the greatest to ever do it. And I don\u2019t want a call from anybody else if I ever get that seat. I want JB to call me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Burleson also revealed that Brown was instrumental during his CBS Sports interview process, and was the one to deliver the news that Burleson had been hired.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, it is interesting to see Burleson directly express interest in the host\u2019s seat and even publicly imagine a world in which he got it. Given that new CBS ownership recently affirmed its commitment to Burleson in the form of a contract extension<\/a> at CBS Mornings, it would not be a surprise if the former NFL wideout had already talked with management about a future in Brown\u2019s role.<\/p>\n Brown, for his part, recently suggested he could remain on air for as much as another decade<\/a>. CBS is in the process of renegotiating its broadcast rights deal with the NFL<\/a> after a change of ownership from its merger with Skydance last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite a strong, decade-long career in the NFL, Nate Burleson has quickly become just as well-known as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,103849,593,85,30464],"class_list":["post-805699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nate-burleson","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-the-nfl-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}