ESPN signs Chris Fowler to multi-year deal, adds NFL games

ESPN signs Chris Fowler to multi-year deal, adds NFL games

Chris Fowler and ESPN have agreed to a multi-year deal, it was announced Wednesday.

Fowler will add an NFL role as part of the deal, but he will continue to lead play-by-play of ESPN/ABC College Football and grand slam tennis tournaments. Details of the deal were not released.

Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Lisa Salters will continue to call “Monday Night Football.”

After calling Aaron Rodgers’ New York Jets debut on ESPN and ABC in Week 1, Monday Night Football’s Buck, Aikman and Salters will call the Browns at Steelers in Week 2, followed by the Eagles at Buccaneers in Week 3. Both games will air on ABC and stream on ESPN+.

On the same back-to-back Mondays following the MNF season opener, ESPN’s Fowler, Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick and Laura Rutledge will call Saints at Panthers (Week 2) and Rams at Bengals (Week 3). Both games will air on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. Fowler assumes the new assignment following ESPN signing the marquee event play-by-player commentator to a new multi-year deal.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.