announced on Oct. 2<\/a> that Romo would not return after the two sides \u201cagreed to part ways.\u201d Romo had been the lead game analyst for CBS\u2019 NFL coverage since 2017.<\/p>\nWatt joined CBS Sports in 2023 as a studio analyst on \u201cThe NFL Today\u201d studio show following a 12-year career with the Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals. He was a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, a five-time All-Pro selection and the 2017 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year.<\/p>\n
Watt moved to the booth in 2025 and called games on the No. 2 team with Ian Eagle and Evan Washburn before being moved up to the top team this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am incredibly honored and grateful to have the opportunity to represent CBS Sports and all of the fantastic people who make this place so special,\u201d Watt said in a statement. \u201cFrom the brotherhood of \u2018The NFL Today\u2019 to my crews calling games, I couldn\u2019t ask for better teammates alongside me on this television journey. I am thankful to David Berson for his leadership, vision and trust. I love this job and can\u2019t wait to see ya Sunday with Jim and Tracy and many more Sundays to come!\u201d<\/p>\n
Watt will also be in the booth when CBS carries Super Bowl 62 in Atlanta in February 2028.<\/p>\n
Watt and Nantz had a funny moment during last week’s Buffalo Bills-Las Vegas Raiders game when Watt was showing how players try to protect the football from defensive players attempting the \u201cPeanut Punch,\u201d which is named after former defensive back Charles \u201cPeanut\u201d Tillman. Nantz tried to knock the ball from Watt, but hit his wrist hard on the football and immediately grabbed his hand.<\/p>\n
Nantz had an ice pack on after halftime and joked that he broke his wrist, but said during interviews this week nothing was broken. Nantz is probable to be in the booth with Watt for Sunday’s game<\/a> between the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — JJ Watt will continue to be the analyst on CBS Sports’ lead NFL team after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-891270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891270","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=891270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}