{"id":883970,"date":"2026-10-16T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883970\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:04:18","slug":"sources-predict-greg-olsen-replaces-troy-aikman-at-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883970\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources predict Greg Olsen replaces Troy Aikman at ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

The triumvirate of Greg Olsen, Troy Aikman, and Kirk Herbstreit entered this NFL season in the final year of their respective contracts at Fox, ESPN, and Prime Video. While Prime Video reportedly extended Herbstreit (sort of<\/a>), speculation around Aikman and Olsen\u2019s futures is hitting midseason form.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy best sources are predicting that Greg Olsen will wind up in ESPN\u2019s\u00a0Monday Night Football\u00a0both next season,\u201d John Ourand reported for Puck<\/a> on Thursday night. \u201cOlsen\u2019s current contract with Fox ends this season, and while he has had some negotiations over a renewal, nothing is signed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ourand continued, \u201cOlsen, who lost the top analyst job to Tom Brady in 2024, has made it clear that he wants to be a number one analyst. And right now, it looks like ESPN\u2019s seat will be open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aikman and Joe Buck have been broadcast partners since 2002, first with Fox and now with ESPN, but only Buck\u2019s future is secured beyond this season. ESPN signed Buck to a lucrative extension<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

According to Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports<\/a>, growing tensions came to a head<\/a> before the duo called the Buffalo Bills\u2019 win over the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Monday night, before the Rams took on the Bills at SoFi Stadium, the site of this season\u2019s Super Bowl, Buck \u2018broke the ice\u2019 on this unspoken tension, and he and Aikman had an argument, a source said,\u201d Glasspiegel wrote Wednesday. \u201cIt ultimately de-escalated, and the two had a broadcast in which viewers never would have been able to decipher that something was amiss.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fourth wall was permanently broken Thursday, however, when Aikman appeared on KTCK The Ticket<\/a> in Dallas and didn\u2019t exactly go out of his way to dispel Glasspiegel\u2019s report. By Thursday night, Aikman doubled down<\/a> on the possibility of departing ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just seems to be where they\u2019re going \u2014 that they\u2019re gonna go in a different direction because there\u2019s been no talks, no contract negotiations,\u201d Aikman told Jimmy Traina<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re in a Super Bowl year. The Super Bowl is Feb. 14. My contract ends in March. It just doesn\u2019t seem logical that if they were gonna keep me, something wouldn\u2019t be in place before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

ESPN may covet Olsen in this hypothetical post-Aikman world, but that\u2019s only half of the equation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpoke to Fox Sports management: They said early in the offseason they spoke with Greg Olsen\u2019s representative where they laid out what the parameters of a new contract would be,\u201d Richard Deitsch reported<\/a> Thursday night, updating his earlier report<\/a>. \u201cSo from the Fox Sports perspective, they say they\u2019ve had some conversations about a contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deitsch additionally quoted Fox Sports president Brad Zager as saying, \u201cWe want Greg here for a long time. We are ready to pick up those conversations whenever they are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that might only be relevant if there\u2019s no No. 1 job available for Olsen to snatch up. As it stands now, ESPN could be the lead chair he\u2019s been waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The triumvirate of Greg Olsen, Troy Aikman, and Kirk Herbstreit entered this NFL season in the final year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[352,399,6265,95718,176805,255929,50687,398,396,397,349,99,82871],"class_list":["post-883970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-fox","tag-greg-olsen","tag-joe-buck","tag-john-ourand","tag-monday-night-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-troy-aikman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883970","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=883970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}