Tom Brady Lands Record-Breaking Deal To Join Fox Sports As Lead NFL Analyst After Playing Career

Tom Brady will continue to make history long after his playing days end.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion has inked a deal with Fox Sports to take over as its lead NFL analyst for a reported $375 million over 10 years, as first reported by the New York Post. It is the largest contract in sportscasting history. For context, Brady has earned $333 million during his 22-year NFL career.

Brady will team up with lead play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt to call the network’s biggest games “immediately following his playing career,” Fox Corp. Executive Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch revealed on Tuesday during a corporate investor call.

The duo will replace the recently departed Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who left earlier this year for ESPN in a move that shook up the sports media world. Aikman is said to be commanding a similar salary to Tony Romo, the lead NFL analyst at CBS who joined the network in 2017 after a 14-year career with the Dallas Cowboys. Romo reportedly earns $18 million a year. After 16 years with NBC, Al Michaels heads to Amazon in a deal that could reportedly net the famed broadcaster almost $11 million per year for up to three years. ESPN college analyst Kirk Herbstreit will join Michaels.

After hanging up their cleats, several of Brady’s contemporaries also headed to the booth. Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees joined NBC as a rookie NFL analyst in 2021 after completing 20 seasons in the NFL. Hall-of-Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and his brother Eli Manning called 10 games last season in an alternative broadcast known as the ‘ManningCast’ during ESPN’s Monday Night Football. The telecast proved so successful and popular that the network extended the brothers through 2024 with plans to branch out into other sports.

For his part, Brady took to Twitter to share that he was excited about the future opportunity but also focused on the field this upcoming season.

As for when his TV tenure will begin, that’s still up in the air. Brady, who spent 20 seasons with the New England Patriots before moving on to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two seasons, returned to the field this year after a brief retirement lasting barely 40 days. His seven Super Bowl titles are the most by any player in NFL history.

The NFL recently finalized rights deals with Fox, ESPN, CBS, NBC, and Amazon to the tune of $110 billion that will extend into the 2030s. The league led TV viewership last year with 75 of the top-100 rated shows, including the top seven.