{"id":805215,"date":"2026-08-07T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805215\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:48:10","slug":"joe-buck-troy-aikman-enter-contract-year-at-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805215\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Buck, Troy Aikman enter contract year at ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first hint came in April, when Joe Buck declared that he\u2019d like to spend the rest of his career at ESPN \u2014 with the caveat that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/joe-buck-wants-to-stay-at-espn-for-the-rest-of-his-career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no talks had commenced<\/a> on a contract that expires after the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>With the upcoming season coming very soon, both Buck and on-air partner Troy Aikman are entering the final years of their deals together.<\/p>\n<p>Via Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports, CAA now <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/troy-aikman-joe-buck-contract-year-espn\/?utm_source=frontofficesports.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=uefa-not-backing-off-fifa-boycott&amp;_bhlid=0276e151d57d0f1d02c38e097e1e7f58989e93bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">represents both Buck and Aikman<\/a>. As McCarthy notes, it\u2019s possible that CAA will negotiate them as a package deal.<\/p>\n<p>Both signed five-year deals for Monday Night Football in 2022. ESPN pays Aikman $18 million per year, while Buck gets $15 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine both leaving, primarily since there won\u2019t be many high-rent spots where both could go together.<\/p>\n<p>One destination could be Amazon, where both Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit have contracts that expire after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first hint came in April, when Joe Buck declared that he\u2019d like to spend the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-805215","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\/805215","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=805215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}