ESPN officially announces Jason Kelce joining Monday Night Countdown

Kelce will join Scott Van Pelt, Ryan Clark, Marcus Spears, Adam Schefter and Michelle Beisner-Buck on Monday Night Countdown. And he will come back on during halftime with Scott Van Pelt and Ryan Clark. 

“Turns out, it was a short retirement! I’m excited to join ESPN, and particularly the Monday Night Countdown team. ESPN was a consistent presence in our household growing up and the network helped shape who I am and my love of all sports. To now appear on that same screen is a full circle moment. And, I mean it’s freaking Monday Night Football! and I’m ready for some football,” Kelce said in a statement via ESPN. 

These rumors have been floating around since the beginning of the month, but Kelce wasn't willing to admit to anything. 

"Yeah, nothing's been officially inked yet or announce yet. But obviously there's been a lot of reports out there about me going to ESPN. And I think time will kind of take care of that," Kelce said on his New Heights podcast earlier this month. "But it's a tremendous honor to even be considered to potentially work there. That network was everything that Travis and I watched growing up."

Kelce made his interest in TV broadcasting known when he tested the waters during the Eagles' Week 10 bye week in 2023 and appeared on Amazon Prime's "Thursday Night Football" show as a guest analyst.

In his initial report, The Athletic's Andrew Marchand said that CBS, NBC, and Prime Video were also heavily pursuing Kelce, however, ESPN won in the end.