Dan Le Batard Says NFL TV Hires Favor White Analysts, Citing 3 Ex-Players

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 1

Dan Le Batard said TV networks disproportionately elevate white former NFL players as analysts, pointing on his podcast to Luke Kuechly, J.J. Watt and Rob Gronkowski.
His argument was that a league with many Black stars still steers top broadcasting jobs to white ex-players to make coverage more broadly palatable.
The report counters that recent high-profile hires and promotions included Jason McCourty, Devin McCourty, Charles Davis and Robert Griffin III, and says ESPN's NFL analyst roster is mostly Black.
It also says Le Batard's own Meadowlark Media has few non-white on-air hosts and no visible Black-heavy NFL analyst lineup, sharpening accusations of hypocrisy.