Who is Greg Olsen? Meet the Fox broadcaster calling Super Bowl 57
Fox has the rights to the Super Bowl for the first time in three years, and this time around there will be some new faces in the booth.
With Joe Buck and Troy Aikman now at ESPN, Kevin Burkhardt will handle play-by-play duties, while Greg Olsen will serve as color analyst for the big game.
Olsen is already a household name to NFL fans. A former Pro Bowl tight end, he joined Fox as a broadcaster after retiring in 2021 and quickly rose to become the network’s premier broadcast team.
Olsen’s exact future role is up in the air with Tom Brady potentially moving to Fox, but he will have an opportunity Sunday night in Arizona to do what few have done and call out a Super Bowl.
Here’s everything you need to know about Olsen calling Super Bowl 57.
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Who did Greg Olsen play for?
Olsen spent the first four seasons of his career with the Bears, but he made his mark during a nine-year stint with the Panthers following a trade in 2011.
Olsen posted a new career-high 843 yards in his sophomore season in Carolina and became Cam Newton’s top target with three straight 1,000-yard seasons in 2014-16. Olsen was selected to the Pro Bowl in all three of those seasons and received two All-Pro Second Team selections. He had a career-best 1,104 yards in 2015 when a Panthers team lacking a legitimate No. 1 wide receiver won the NFC 15-1.
Olsen struggled with injuries late in his tenure at Carolina and was released after the 2019 season. He finished his Seattle career with 24 catches for 239 yards and a touchdown in 2020 before announcing his retirement in January 2021.
Only six tight ends have more career receiving yards than Olsen, who finished with 8,683. One of them, Travis Kelce, will be on the field when Olsen calls Super Bowl 57.
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Greg Olsen Super Bowl Stats
Olsen was a big part of the Panthers’ offense during their 15-1 season that took them to Super Bowl 50, but he was held in check by a historically good Broncos offense with a championship.
Olsen finished Super Bowl 50 with 41 yards and only 4 receptions despite being tackled by Newton nine times. The Panthers would finish with just 10 points in the loss. Still, having a player with some Super Bowl experience in the dressing room for the biggest game of the year is a nice bonus.
Newton eyed Olsen early and often during that playoff run as the tight end added 190 yards and a touchdown between the divisional round and the NFC Championship game before the disappointing Super Bowl performance.
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Greg Olsen Fox contract
Olsen is believed to be making nearly $10 million this season as part of Fox’s top broadcast team. However, his future is in the stars.
Fox agreed a 10-year, $375 million deal with Tom Brady to fill Olsen’s role as the network’s top analyst during its final offseason. Now that Brady has retired, Olsen could be demoted to the No. 2 team and forced to take a significant pay cut.
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According to the New York Post, Olsen’s Fox contract “allows him to leave if there’s a No. 1 job,” so it’s possible he’s impressed other networks enough to get a top role elsewhere, now or in the future to get. It’s also possible Brady may decide he’s not as interested in broadcasting as he thought he would be, although it would be difficult to walk away from that kind of money.
As of now, Olsen’s annual salary of around $10 million matches that of Amazon Prime’s Kirk Herbstreit, behind Tony Romo ($18 million), Troy Aikman ($18 million) and Cris Collinsworth ($12 million). ).