Retired Eagles star Brandon Graham lands a new TV gig
Graham, the outspoken defensive end who spent 15 seasons with the Birds, is joining "Good Morning Football."
Brandon Graham is poised to be the Eagles next national TV star.
Graham, the trash-talking Super Bowl champ who retired in March after 15 seasons with the Birds, is joining the NFL Network’s Good Morning Football as a guest analyst throughout the season, The Inquirer has learned.
His first appearance on the show will be on Sept. 3, and he’s expected to appear frequently on the popular morning show throughout the season.
Good Morning Football will film from NFL Films headquarters in Mount Laurel next week leading up to Thursday’s season opener between the Eagles and Dallas Cowboys. Graham will join the show remotely.
Puck’s John Ourand was first to report Graham’s NFL Network role.
Graham’s interest in the media goes back to his playing days, when the defensive end regularly sparred with former NBC Sports Philadelphia reporter Derrick Gunn and others following games. He also participated in the NFL’s broadcast boot camp program last year and appeared as a guest host on ESPN.
He also hosted a weekly show on 94.1 WIP for nine seasons, most recently alongside Howard Eskin. During a remote broadcast with Graham on Dec. 9, Eskin got into an altercation with a female employee at the station, The Inquirer reported, leading to his sudden departure from WIP.
Graham also made waves after commenting on his WIP show in December about a lack of communication between Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown. Graham, who was sidelined at the time with an injury, clarified that he made an “assumption” based on a video of Brown speaking with reporters and hadn’t spoken with either of his teammates before going on the air.
“I didn’t know all the details,” Graham told reporters the next day. “And I was just like, ‘Dang,’ like, I really just saw everything that y’all saw with the video, and I just was reacting to that. And I should have used a little more logic on it.”
It’s unclear whether Graham plans to return his show to WIP this season. A spokesperson for Audacy, WIP’s parent company, declined to comment. Graham last hosted the show in January ahead of the Super Bowl.
Good Morning Football, meanwhile, has undergone a number of changes in recent years, including a move to Los Angeles (despite airing live at 8 a.m. Philadelphia time) and the departures of Jason McCourty, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila.
Friend of the Eagles Kyle Brandt remains a full-time co-host alongside Jamie Erdahl and Sherree Burruss. Former linebacker Manti Te‘o, best known for being catfished, joins the show as a permanent host this season.
Graham’s addition to the show comes after ESPN agreed to purchase the NFL Network and the league’s other media assets. The NFL also received a 10% ownership stake in ESPN, estimated to be worth between $2.2 billion and $2.5 billion.
The deal has to be approved by federal regulators, which isn’t expected to happen until next year at the soonest. But if Graham is looking to follow former teammate Jason Kelce over to ESPN, this isn’t the worst audition.