Hall of Fame linebacker Luke Kuechly will be Netflix\u2019s new No. 1 NFL game analyst after impressing the streamer\u2019s executives during a recent tryout, according to sources briefed on the move who were granted anonymity because the news has not been formally announced.<\/p>\n
Kuechly will first team with NBC\u2019s Noah Eagle during the second game of the regular season Thursday, Sept. 10, when the Los Angeles Rams face the San Francisco 49ers from the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. NBC is producing the game for Netflix.<\/p>\n
Netflix has five NFL games this season. Christmas will be a doubleheader, requiring a second broadcast team.<\/p>\n
Netflix declined comment on Kuechly.<\/p>\n
Kuechly will officially be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 8 in Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n
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Earlier this month, Kuechly and Eagle met at NBC\u2019s Stamford, Conn., studios for the tryout. While Kuechly is entering the Hall of Fame, he is not an ex-quarterback. He played only eight NFL seasons in Carolina, and his profile wasn\u2019t as high as some of the usual candidates for these positions. Netflix previously has used J.J. Watt, Greg Olsen, Drew Brees, Nate Burleson and Matt Ryan. Still, Kuechly, like his ex-teammate Olsen at Fox, had a desire to be in the booth and has studied for the opportunity.<\/p>\n
Kuechly, 35, entered the audition with some experience, having been the radio analyst on the Panthers broadcast with play-by-player Anish Shroff. He also hosts a podcast with his longtime teammate, J.J. Jansen. Last season, he did two \u201cMonday Night Football Playbook\u201d alt-casts on ESPN2 with Dan Orlovsky and Field Yates.<\/p>\n
During the tryout, Eagle, 29, and Kuechly showed immediate chemistry, according to sources who watched the audition, making the Netflix executives very comfortable turning to Kuechly as they sought to bring a new, fresh name into the No. 1 NFL TV booths.<\/p>\n
The top crews are dominated by quarterbacks with Tom Brady at Fox, Tony Romo at CBS and Troy Aikman at CBS, while NBC, with Cris Collinsworth, and Prime Video, with Kirk Herbstreit, have ex-players who worked their way up the broadcasting ladder. (Herbstreit was a college quarterback.)<\/p>\n
Now, Netflix will turn to Kuechly for a new voice in a top booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame linebacker Luke Kuechly will be Netflix\u2019s new No. 1 NFL game analyst after impressing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99,1794],"class_list":["post-791022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791022","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=791022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}