On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, ESPN announced that it had re-signed Dan Orlovsky to a multi-year deal. Under the new deal, the former UCONN quarterback will join the network’s Monday Night Football broadcasts as an analyst. During weeks in which ESPN broadcasts multiple games in the same week, he will also join Louis Riddick and play-by-play caller Chris Fowler in the booth. Not to be forgotten, he will continue to make regular appearances on NFL Live, Get Up, First Take and The Pat McAfee Show.
“Officially official. Unfinished business. Unbelievably grateful. LFG,” Orlovsky wrote on Instagram after the deal was announced.
Orlovsky, 40, is best known as the quarterback of the University of Connecticut Huskies from 2001 through 2004. Passing for more than 10,000 yards and 84 touchdowns, he led the program to its first-ever bowl game in 2004 as the Huskies downed the Toledo Rockets by a score of 39-10. In the 2005 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions selected Orlovsky with the 145th overall pick. He spent more than a decade in the NFL, playing for the Lions, Texans, Colts, Buccaneers, and Rams. A year after leaving the field, he joined ESPN in 2018 and jump-started his media career. In May 2025, Orvlosky earned his first-ever Sports EMMY Award when NFL Live won Most Outstanding Studio Show.
