GREG OLSEN BIO

Three-time Pro Bowler and two-time Sports Emmy Award winner Greg Olsen pairs with play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and reporter Pam Oliver to call NFL games for FOX Sports in 2024. Since joining FOX Sports, Olsen earned a Sports Emmy for Top Event Analyst in 2023 and for Outstanding Emerging On-Air Talent in 2022. In February 2023, Olsen called Super Bowl LVII alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt.

Following retirement from the NFL, Olsen embarked on his rookie broadcast season in 2021 with Burkhardt and Oliver. In early 2020, during the offseason before his final season with the Seattle Seahawks, Olsen also partnered with Burkhardt to call five XFL games for FOX Sports.

In 2017, while playing for the Carolina Panthers, Olsen became the third player in FOX Sports’ history to serve as game analyst – following Matt Hasselbeck (2014) and Marcus Allen (1994). He joined Burkhardt, analyst Charles Davis and Oliver to call the Week 11 Rams at Vikings matchup. In 2019, while still playing for the Carolina Panthers, Olsen partnered with play-by-play announcer Kenny Albert and reporter Lindsay Czarniak for the Week 7 NFL matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and the New York Giants. Olsen also served as an NFL studio analyst for the network’s coverage of Super Bowl LIV in Miami.

Olsen was selected by the Chicago Bears with the 31st overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft out of the University of Miami. He spent four seasons with the Bears before being traded to the Carolina Panthers in 2011. Olsen remained with the Panthers through the conclusion of the 2019 season, played a key role in the Panthers’ Super Bowl 50 berth against the Denver Broncos and went on to become one of the most prolific tight ends in NFL history.

The three-time Pro Bowler and two-time second-team All-Pro ranks fifth all-time among tight ends with 742 receptions and 8,683 yards. From 2014 to 2016, he recorded 1,000 receiving yards each season, becoming the first tight end in history to record three consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons. He left the Panthers as the franchise’s all-time leading tight end in receiving yards (6,463), receptions (524) and 100-yard receiving games (10). Olsen sits second among Panthers tight ends in receiving touchdowns at 39 and third in receiving yards and receptions.

Olsen twice was named a finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award. Inspired by the challenges facing his son, T.J., who was born with a severe congenital heart defect, Olsen and his wife, Kara, founded the HEARTest Yard Program to offer support and services to those facing similar circumstances.

A Wayne, N.J., native, Olsen attended the University of Miami. He and Kara reside in Charlotte, N.C., with their two sons and daughter.