JAY GLAZER BIO

Jay Glazer is the NFL Insider for FOX Sports’ award-winning NFL pregame show, FOX NFL SUNDAY, where he breaks in with exclusives, late-breaking updates, injury news and other various reports right up until the start of Sunday games and all the way through FOX’s Sunday coverage, as well as on THE OT.  The 2024 season marks his 21st with the network.

In 2023, some of the exclusive stories Glazer broke included news that the 10-1 Eagles secretly made a shocking in-season change at defensive coordinator, a move only Glazer found out about. He also broke the news that the 49ers had made the biggest blockbuster trade at the trade deadline when they acquired former No. 2 pick DE Chase Young from Washington. In addition, he reported all the way back in November that the Giants and their high-profile defensive coordinator, Wink Martindale, would shockingly be parting ways during or right after the season, which happened the day after the season’s end despite denials from all sides. In his annual coaching carousel segment in the last week of the regular season, Glazer reported as fact that the Patriots would be moving on from legendary coach Bill Belichick, and that Mike Vrabel was not safe as coach of the Titans. Glazer also was the only reporter to say that Pete Carroll was not a definite to return as Seahawks head coach. All three came true shortly after.

Glazer has established a reputation for breaking major stories in the NFL all year round. He prides himself on loyalty, a tenacious work ethic and accurate reporting, traits that have helped bolster him to the next level of NFL reporting and has made Glazer a "go-to" source for news and information.

Other career highlights include the biggest scoop in NFL history when Glazer got his hands on the infamous SpyGate video showing the New England Patriots cheating in 2007. Glazer got this despite the NFL’s assurance that all copies of the tape had been destroyed.

Glazer remains the only person in possession of the SpyGate videos, which he has refused to surrender despite being threatened by Senator Arlen Spector with jail time. The hardest-working man in the industry, Glazer was named Sports Illustrated’s Media Person of the Year in 2007. Glazer then repeated this years later when he was the only reporter with access to the video showing the New England Patriots illegally filming the Cincinnati Bengals sideline, known as SpyGate 2.

Glazer has had a career of massive blockbuster scoops. Among them, even before the 2014-15 NFL campaign even started, Glazer reported that 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh would not return for the following season, no matter how well the Niners performed and even if they won the Super Bowl. Harbaugh subsequently left San Francisco for the University of Michigan at the end of the season. Later that year, right before Super Bowl XLIX, Glazer broke the news that the NFL had obtained video of a New England Patriots’ locker room attendant taking the game-ready footballs into an alternate room to be deflated before the AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts.

Glazer scored the first sit-down interview with Richie Incognito after the Miami Dolphins’ locker room bullying scandal. He was also the first to report the end of the NFL Lockout at 3:52 AM. Glazer was on top of every Brett Favre retirement, un-retirement and signing.

He also broke the news the night before the Super Bowl that Raiders All Pro Center Barrett Robbins had gone AWOL to Tijuana, would be sent home and not play in the biggest game of the year.

Three years ago he had the only sit-down interview with Eagles star Lane Johnson, who had surprisingly left the Eagles on a Sunday morning due to a mental health breakdown. Johnson opened up to Glazer publicly, and the entire FOX NFL SUNDAY cast participated in a lengthy segment on men’s mental health that was lauded by several NFL players and fans for helping them know they are not alone.

In January 2022, Glazer released the book, Unbreakable: How I Turned My Depression and Anxiety Into Motivation and You Can Too. With his book and voice,  Glazer became and remains a powerful voice for many struggling with mental health issues.

In September 2022, iHeartMedia and Fox Sports Radio launched his podcast, Unbreakable with Jay Glazer: A Mental Wealth Podcast. Glazer shares his personal mental health journey with audiences, including the tools and techniques he’s developed to "fight the gray" and "live in the blue" – his phrases for living and thriving with anxiety, depression and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Glazer is also an incredibly passionate and pioneer voice in the world of mixed martial arts. He was the first host of a national MMA show in America when he hosted The Pride Fighting Championships and was a longtime studio host for UFC and Bellator as well as color commentator for Elite XC.

His passion for the sport goes way beyond broadcasting, as Glazer even fought twice professionally in 2003 and then began a long coaching career where he, along with Randy Couture, created the first MMA training program for pro athletes and coached numerous NFL teams such as the Falcons, Saints, Rams and Browns at their facilities and hundreds more at the training center he opened in West Hollywood, Unbreakable.

He still trains professional athletes in MMA and has coached and trained several hundred since 2007. In addition to sports, Glazer also helped lead many Hollywood stars such as Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Demi Lovato, and The Jonas Brothers, among others, to begin their amazing MMA training journeys.

On the entertainment side, Glazer has starred in multiple TV shows, including all five seasons of the HBO hit Ballers. He has also had spots on The League on FX, hosted the season finale of Wicked Tuna for National Geographic, and hosted the 100th episode of Pitbulls and Parolees on Animal Planet.

Glazer is a natural in front of the camera, allowing his fun, outgoing and unique personality to shine through on the biggest of stages.

With all of his accomplishments, Glazer is most proud of the charitable organizations he founded: Touchdown Dreams and Merging Vets & Players (MVP). MVP works to match former combat veterans and former professional athletes to help each other through the transition into their new lives away from the battlefields and playing fields. MVP has locations in eight cities and regularly hosts workouts and counseling sessions for the members of MVP both in person and virtually.

With Touchdown Dreams, Glazer matched NFL players and coaches with children fighting potentially terminal diseases.

He got married on May 7, 2024, to Rosie Tenison, and the two live in Malibu, California.