A pair of ESPN regulars, one current and another former, will be joining NFL broadcast teams this season.
ESPN broadcaster Beth Mowins has joined CBS as an NFL play-by-play voice, it was announced Tuesday, working alongside analyst Jay Feely on select games throughout the season. Mowins will make her CBS debut on Browns-Colts in Week 3.
Her new role will not affect her duties with ESPN, where she will make her national NFL play-by-play debut in Week 1, working the back half of ESPN’s Monday Night Football doubleheader.
Mowins is one of four newcomers to the NFL on CBS this season, joining former Westwood One analyst James Lofton, rookie lead analyst Tony Romo, and her partner Feely, who had previously worked college games for CBS Sports Network. Lofton will work alongside Andrew Catalon, Catalon’s old partners Steve Tasker and Steve Beuerlein will now work with Tom McCarthy, and McCarthy’s old partner Adam Archuleta will now work with Spero Dedes — whose old partner Solomon Wilcots left CBS and was replaced by Lofton.
Over on FOX, former ESPN NFL analyst Mark Schlereth will make his game analyst debut this season, working alongside Dick Stockton. Schlereth, who joined Fox Sports earlier in the summer, is the network’s lone addition in the wake of Jay Cutler‘s abrupt departure.
Speaking of Cutler, his once-future broadcast partners Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis will work together in a two-man booth. Davis’ old partner Thom Brennaman will now work with Chris Spielman. Elsewhere on the FOX depth chart, Kenny Albert and Chris Myers will swap partners this year, the former working with Ronde Barber and the latter with Daryl Johnston.
[Tue. news from CBS, Fox Sports]
