Longtime Sunday Night Football analyst Cris Collinsworth is reportedly set to remain in his current position through the end of the decade.
Andrew Marchand of The Athletic reported Thursday that Collinsworth is nearing a four-year contract extension with NBC through the 2029-30 season. Collinsworth is already under contract through NBC’s next Super Bowl in 2026 and the new deal would ensure that he would call the 2030 game as well, assuming that there are no changes to the Super Bowl rotation in the event the NFL opts out of its current deals in 2029.
Collinsworth is in his second stint with NBC, having rejoined the network when it began carrying Sunday night games in 2006. He first served as a studio analyst on Football Night in America and replaced John Madden as its lead game analyst upon his 2009 retirement. With Troy Aikman leaving FOX for ESPN two years ago, he is the longest-tenured lead NFL analyst at any network.
Previously, Collinsworth worked for NBC from 1990-98 as a studio analyst on its NFL Live pregame show. He also held other roles on NBC, including on its NBA coverage.
In between his NBC gigs, Collinsworth was as a lead NFL analyst for FOX, working alongside Joe Buck and Aikman in a short-lived three-man booth that worked the 2005 Super Bowl — the such first assignment for all three.
