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09/09/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/09/2025 13:43

Meet the ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcast team

Prime Videohas assembled an all-star lineup of on-air talent to guide you through all the Thursday Night Footballgame action this season.

The team includes legendary announcers, nationally renowned reporters, former NFL players, and top production personnel.

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Here's the entire TNF broadcast team for the 2025 NFL season.

Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer

An eight-time Emmy Award winner, Al Michaels is known as one of the most accomplished and revered broadcasters in TV history. He brings all his charisma and legendary status to Thursday Night Football as the play-by-play announcer for Prime Video's exclusive coverage. Michaels is the only commentator to helm the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, and the NHL's Stanley Cup Finals on network television.

Kirk Herbstreit, game analyst

Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State University quarterback, is widely regarded as one of the best football analysts in all of football. He's been a celebrated fixture on ESPN for more than 20 years, and has won 14 Emmy Awards for his work as both a studio analyst and a game analyst.

Kaylee Hartung, sideline reporter

Nationally renowned news and sports correspondent Kaylee Hartung works as Prime Video sideline reporter to give you all the inside information from the teams, coaches, players and more during the game. She's a two-time Sports Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter.

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In addition to her role on TNF, Kaylee is a contributing correspondent for NBC's Todayshow. Throughout her distinguished career, Hartung has worked in a variety of high-profile reporting roles, including ABC's Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, and Nightline, where she covered top headlines and interviewed notable figures spanning sports, entertainment, business, and technology.

Charissa Thompson, host

Charissa Thompson enters her fourth season as TNF's host, working alongside analysts Tony Gonzalez, Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Whitworth. As one of the top hosts in all of sports television, Thompson has hosted numerous shows, including the NFL on FOXand Extra.

Andrew Whitworth, analyst

Andrew Whitworth is a pregame, halftime, and postgame analyst for TNF.

He retired as the oldest tackle in NFL history after 16 seasons in 2022, and the oldest offensive lineman to ever win a Super Bowl. In 2021, he received the NFL's prestigious NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year award, which recognizes his outstanding community service activities off the field.

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"I think we all feel like it's our birthday every Thursday night," Whitworth said in a recent media call previewing the 2025 TNF on Primeseason."We get to go have a birthday party in the sense of we love the game of football and this is this awesome thing we get to all go do together and just be there to watch.

"And I think the ultimate goal to us is: Are we the kind of people that you wanna watch a game with? Like, we're not there to overtalk you, we're not there to say that we know more than you. We're there to create the picture and have a blast and say, 'Man, let's watch this freaking awesome game tonight. Let's find a way to laugh at ourselves, laugh at the game, have fun with it."

Richard Sherman, analyst

Super Bowl champion and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman is one of TNF's pregame, halftime, and postgame analysts. He earned a Sports Emmy Award nomination in 2025 for Outstanding Emerging Personality.

"We're getting to do what we love with the people we love, in an environment we love to do it in," Sherman said in a recent media call previewing the 2025 TNF on Primeseason. "We understand that we're not the show. The game is the show, the players are the show."

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Sherman built a remarkable 11-year career as a player in the NFL where he spent seven seasons with the Seattle Seahawks before he joined the San Francisco 49ers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Ryan Fitzpatrick, analyst

Ryan Fitzpatrick, a 17-year NFL veteran, enters his fourth year as TNF's pregame, halftime, and postgame analyst. He earned a Sports Emmy Award nomination in 2025 for Outstanding Emerging Personality.

"Whit, Sherm and I were all fresh off the field and Amazon kind of took a chance and said, 'Gosh, I don't know. Let's put these three knuckleheads in there and see how it goes,' and the friendship that we were able to forge, the chemistry that we have off of the screen, we hope that that really shines," Fitzpatrick said in a recent media call previewing the 2025 TNF on Primeseason. "We also all genuinely love the game of football, and we hope that that shines through when we talk about the game and players and relationships, because it is such a huge part of our lives."

During his NFL career, Fitzpatrick became the first quarterback to throw for over 400 yards in three consecutive games while playing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and is also the only NFL player to have a passing and rushing touchdown with eight different teams.

Tony Gonzalez, analyst

Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez is a pregame, halftime, and postgame analyst for Thursday Night Football. Gonzalez has also been a studio analyst for FOX NFL Kickoffand earned a 2020 Sports Emmy Award nomination for FOX Sports' Thursday Night Football pregame show.

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Gonzalez has also extended his broadcast career beyond the NFL, appearing in productions for Spectrum, Nickelodeon, and Showtime.

Taylor Rooks, feature reporter

Taylor Rooks, Prime Video's feature reporter, conducts in-depth interviews with players, coaches, and other NFL figures during wrap-around coverage of the game

In 2021, Rooks received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent, and was recognized by Black Enterpriseas part of its annual 40 Under 40 list the following year.

Terry McAulay, rules analyst

Terry McAulay is Thursday Night Football's rules analyst, providing the primary game feed with clarity and analysis for key plays and calls.

McAulay spent 20 years officiating NFL games, including three years as a side judge and a field judge, plus 17 years as a referee. He led the officiating crew in three Super Bowls and worked 15 additional NFL playoff games before diving into a career as a rules analyst. In addition to his work with TNF, he serves as the rules analyst for NBC Sports.

Mark Teitelman, lead game producer

Mark Teitelman, a 10-time Sports Emmy Award winner, is Thursday Night Football's lead game producer.

In addition to producing TNF's game coverage, Teitelman is a lead producer at NFL Network, where he handles coverage of the NFL Draft, Scouting Combine, and the NFL Honors telecast. Previously, Teitelman spent 12 years at FOX Sports, where he produced a weekly NFL on FOX game package, produced two seasons of the USFL on FOX, and oversaw creative on four FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Sam Schwartzstein, analytics expert

Sam Schwarzstein works closely on Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats, one of Thursday Night Football's weekly alternate streams.

He produces analytics storylines, schematic insights, and offers explainers of situational football using analytics. Before joining Prime Video, Schwartzstein was part of the founding team at the 2020 iteration of the XFL, where he oversaw the creation of the XFL rulebook. Prior to his career working in football, Schwartzstein was a captain of the Stanford University football team, starting 27 games throughout his career, including a second team All-Pac-12 nomination in 2012.

Miguel Gurwitz, play-by-play announcer

Emmy Award winner Miguel Gurwitz joined Thursday Night Football in 2022 as a play-by-play announcer to help enrich the experience for fans watching TNF en Español.

Gurwitz is a renowned sports journalist who has been the play-by-play announcer for major sporting events like the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, and Super Bowl. In addition, he works as a sports anchor for Telemundo, and is the host of his podcast Mother Soccer.

Rolando Cantú, analyst en español

Former Arizona Cardinals player Rolando Cantú is an analyst for TNF en Español where he helps fans break down all the on-field action.

He was the first active NFL player to come from the Mexican collegiate system. He continues to work with the Cardinals as manager of international business ventures, where he also helped build the Arizona Cardinals Spanish Radio Network.

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This story has been updated with the most recent information about the Thursday Night Footballon-air broadcast team.