Kyle Brandt is closing one chapter just as he\u2019s opening a considerably larger one elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Brandt announced on X that he\u2019s ending his five-season run contributing to CBS\u2019s The NFL Today, thanking the network for granting him latitude he couldn\u2019t have found on almost any other pregame show.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to my friends at The NFL Today on CBS,\u201d Brandt wrote. \u201cWe say goodbye after 5 years of One Shot \/ Many Takes. It\u2019s very challenging to do something original on a pregame show, and the creative freedom + production value you gave me was staggering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thank you to my friends at The NFL Today on CBS.<\/p>\n
We say goodbye after 5 years of One Shot \/ Many Takes \ud83c\udfa5<\/p>\n
It\u2019s very challenging to do something original on a pregame show, and the creative freedom + production value you gave me was staggering. https:\/\/t.co\/5LXtA8MrWc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/x7T64IsWtS<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Brandt\u2019s association with CBS stretches back to 2022, when the network first enlisted him<\/a> to make regular appearances alongside his former Good Morning Football colleague Nate Burleson. That arrangement afforded him the freedom to engineer cinematic, single-take video essays that eventually crystallized into One Shot \/ Many Takes, a format with virtually no precedent anywhere on a traditional NFL pregame broadcast.<\/p>\n CBS goes with a Goodfellas-themed intro featuring Kyle Brandt. #AFCChampionship<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ji62ZAgTuG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) January 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s go hit up an Applebee\u2019s! I\u2019ve got a hankering for some bottomless root beers.\u201d -Kirk Cousins<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/WnVIu6j5d1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n The departure dovetails neatly for Brandt, who according to Front Office Sports, is poised to join several ESPN studio programs<\/a> once football season commences, with a recurring weekly perch on Get Up specifically floated as one probable destination, part of a sweeping integration of NFL Network personalities into ESPN\u2019s daily programming following the network\u2019s acquisition earlier this year.<\/p>\n CBS, meanwhile, is contending with upheaval that extends well beyond Brandt. Lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones announced this week that he\u2019s departing the network<\/a> after nearly seven years to join The Athletic <\/a>as a senior writer. Matt Ryan vacated his analyst chair on the show earlier this year as well<\/a>, decamping for a front-office position<\/a> with the Atlanta Falcons. CBS has scrambled to patch some of that void by installing Russell Wilson and Kyle Long<\/a> onto the pregame show\u2019s panel alongside Burleson<\/a>, Bill Cowher<\/a>, and host James Brown<\/a>, with Wilson sliding directly into the seat Ryan abandoned after logging guest appearances on the show<\/a> during a Giants bye week last season.<\/p>\n Whatever CBS ultimately engineers for its pregame coverage going forward, it remains to be seen whether CBS attempts to replicate what Brandt constructed or allows that particular experiment to conclude alongside Brandt\u2019s own tenure on the show.<\/p>\n \t