{"id":729384,"date":"2026-06-27T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:53:08","slug":"espn-opts-not-to-renew-will-blackmons-good-morning-football-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729384\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN opts not to renew Will Blackmon&#8217;s Good Morning Football contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Blackmon is out at ESPN. Even if he was never really in.<\/p>\n<p>Via Brendon Kleen of Awful Announcing, ESPN <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/espn\/will-blackmon-leaves-good-morning-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opted not to renew<\/a> Blackmon\u2019s contract for NFL Network\u2019s Good Morning Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESPN\/GMFB <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillBlackmon\/status\/2070311987641262531?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">let me go on my day off<\/a>,\u201d Blackmon said on Twitter. \u201cI was added to the roster in April and didn\u2019t even get a snap. A Healthy scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blackmon <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/will-blackmon-joins-the-cast-of-good-morning-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">joined the show<\/a> for the 2025 season. With ESPN acquiring NFL Network as of April 1 \u2014 and reportedly keeping all on-air employees who were under contract at least until those contracts expire \u2014 Blackmon\u2019s contract has expired and will not be renewed, per Kleen.<\/p>\n<p>The churn will likely continue in the coming months, as more existing contracts expire and aren\u2019t renewed.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth-round pick in 2006, Blackmon played for the Packers, Giants, Jaguars, and Washington in a career that spanned a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Blackmon is out at ESPN. Even if he was never really in. Via Brendon Kleen of Awful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-729384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}