Pat McAfee accused ESPN executive Norby Williamson of attempting to sabotage his show on the sports network.

“I believe, Norby Williamson is the guy who is attempting to sabotage our program,” McAfee said. “Now, I’m not 100 percent sure. That is just seemingly the only human that has information, and then that information gets leaked, and it’s wrong, and it sets a narrative of what our show is.”

But who is Norby Williamson?

Williamson has been the executive editor and head of event and studio production at ESPN since 2017. In June of 2023, that role was expanded to include oversight of all of ESPN’s football content, including NFL, College Football, XFL, and SEC Network. He also has oversight of production of baseball (MLB, CWS, LLWS), NHL, UFC, boxing, tennis and golf. His responsibilities include oversight of SportsCenter, E60, ESPN Radio, the ESPN Features Unit, the Investigative Journalism Unit, newsgathering, and multimedia sponsorship integration. He has been in his current position since September of 2017.

Williamson has had stints in programming, production as well as news.

He joined ESPN in 1985 as an employee in the company’s mailroom and quickly rose through the ranks.

From September 2002 until October 2005, Williamson served as senior vice president and managing editor at ESPN, responsible for the day-to-day content of all news and information programming on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS.

From 2005-2007, he was executive vice president, studio and remote production, overseeing all domestic productions. In 2007, he became executive vice president, production. In that role, he was responsible for all ESPN and ABC game, event and studio production work for domestic and international television and radio networks.

Williamson began a new role as executive vice president, programming & acquisitions in January 2012, overseeing all rights negotiations and managing relationships with rights holders for all ESPN entities.

In 2014, he was named executive vice president, production, program scheduling and development, splitting responsibilities between management of the many production areas and oversight of programming functions such as all rights negotiations, managing relationships with rights holders and the scheduling of ESPN’s networks.