CBS Football Pregame Cast and NFL On CBS Announcers

NFL On CBS Announcers are Andrew Catalon, Spero Dedes, and Jim Nantz. Beth Mowins was the first woman to call play-by-play for NFL in 2017.

• Andrew Catalon
• Spero Dedes
• Ian Eagle
• Kevin Harlan
• Tom McCarthy
• Beth Mowins
• Jim Nantz
• Noan Eagle

Andrew Catalon joined CBS Network in 2013 to broadcast the NFL on CBS, PGA Tour on CBS, College Basketball on CBS, and NBA on CBS. 

Catalon did a play-by-play announcer for the 2016 Olympic Games and has covered the Masters Tournament and PGA Championship in golf.

Currently, he is enrolled in CBS Sports, NCAA Basketball, Golf, and NFL coverage as a play-by-play announcer.

Before joining CBS Network, Catalon worked for WNYT as the weekend sports anchor and sports director at WVNY until 2003. 

American sportscaster Jim Nantz began his career as an anchor and sportscaster for KHOU in the early 1980s before working as a weekend sports anchor on KSL-TV from 1982 to 1985.

Two-time Sports Emmy Award winner and five-time NSMA National Sportscaster of the Year Jim Nantz joined CBS Sports in 1985 as a studio host for college football and basketball coverage.

He currently serves for the NFL on CBS, including the Super Bowl and Thursday Night Football games as the lead play-by-play announcer, and he also worked for PGA Tour on CBS and The Master as a host.

Beth Mowins has been a sports play-by-play announcer since 2017  and part of the television telecast of the ESPN, CBS, and Marquee Sports Network; Beth Mowins started her career at WXHC-FM as news and sports director in 1991.

In 2017, Mowins made history as the first woman to do play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports on college basketball, the NBA, and the NFL. She called the game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos with Jay Feely.

New Jersey native Speo Dedes joined CBS Sports in 2009.  Dedes began his career at WFAN in New York.

He was previously the radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angles Lakers from 2005 to 2011 and a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the New York Knicks from 2011 to 2014.

CBS Football Pregame announcers are lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones and three-time Emmy Award winner James Brown.

James Talmadge Brown has been an active sports broadcaster since the 1970s and currently serves as a host of The NFL Today on CBS and Inside The NFL on Showtime.

A member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame since 2020, Brown has won three Emmy Awards for his network broadcasting work. He has hosted the Super Bowl more times than anyone else, including Super Bowl 55 on CBS.

For eleven years, he was known for serving as the former host of Fox Sport’s NFL pregame show Fox NFL Sunday.

Jonathan Jones joined CBS Sports Network in 2019 as a Senior NFL reporter, and since 2022 Jones has served as the lead NFL insider.

Before starting CBS’s journey, he covered the Carolina Panthers for the Charlotte Observer before joining NFL, college basketball, and golf for Sports Illustrated. 

NFL CBS halftime show studio analysts for the 2023 season are Phil Simms, Nate Burleson, Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, and James Brown.

American Football QB Phil Simms began his broadcasting career with ESPN before joining the NBC NFL broadcasting booth as a lead broadcast crew for the coverage of Super Bowl XXX and Super Bowl XXXI.

Simms then moved to CBS in 1998 and has working at CBS since then. During the CBS network, he worked as a CBS lead broadcast team with Greg Gumbel from 1998 to 2003 and then with Jim Nantz.

As a Quarterback Simms spent almost 15 years with New York Giants. Where he was granted several awards including Super Bowl MVP, NFL Man of The Year, and two-time Pro Bowl.

Nate Burleson officially joined the NFL on CBS crew as a studio analyst in 2017 for The NFL Today show. Burleson has won two Sports Emmy Awards for his performance as a Stadio Analyst in 2021 and 2022.

Former Canadian-born American football player Burleson played in the NFL for 11 seasons with the Vikings, Seahawks, Lions, and Browns in 2014. 

He currently serves as a co-host on CBS Mornings and provides football coverage for CBS on The NFL Today program, and on Nickelodeon.

Esiason has experience in various media and broadcasting roles since his playing career. He has also played different roles in many TV programs and movies.

Esiason has worked for the USA Network’s coverage of the World League of American Football for two years as a color analyst.

As an in-studio analyst, he shares his expertise on The NFL Today on CBS and Inside the NFL on Showtime. He also hosts the popular Boomer and Gio show on WFAN Radio in New York and the CBS Sports Network.

The lead in the sideline has Tracy Wolfson, and Evan Washburn, and rotating sideline reporters Aditi Kinkhabwala, and Michael Grady.

• Tracy Wolfson
• Evan Washburn
• Melanie Collins
• AJ Ross
• Aditi Kinkhabwala
• Amanda Renner
• Michael Grady

48-year-old New York native Tracy Wolfson began her on-air career at WZBN as a sports anchor. Then, she worked as an anchor and reporter for MSG Network.

The female sportscaster Tracy started working with CBS Sports in 2004 as a college football sideline reporter. Recently, Wolfson appeared in the lead sideline reporter role for the NFL on CBS.

Reporter Evan Washburn has been part of the CBS network since 2014 and has worked for the NFL network coverage and NCAA basketball.

In addition to its primary role, Washburn serves as the sideline reporter for the local TV coverage of the Baltimore Ravens Pre-season matches.

Melanie Collins is the NFL sideline journalist for CBS Sports and host of Big Break and Driver vs. Driver on Golf Channel.

Before that, Collins served as the sideline reports on CBS Network, covering college football and basketball.

Two-time Emmy Award-winning experience reporter A.J. Rose has covered the NFL, college football, and basketball sidelines for CBS Sports since 2018.

Kinkhabwala has been active as a sports journalist since 1999 and is now part of the NFL on CBS as a reporter. Previously, she has been covering the NFL network for almost ten years.