NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson could leave the show in 2025, it has been reported.
Hanson, 53, will host the live whip-around program for an incredible 16th straight season starting this Sunday, and he’s become a beloved figure to NFL fans – especially fantasy players and gamblers.
However, Front Office Sports has reported that Hanson’s current contract with NFL Media expires after this season, potentially leading to ‘lucrative’ offers from rival networks like NBC Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN or Amazon Prime Video.
Hanson reportedly signed his current deal in 2021.
Front Office Sports later wrote that Hanson leaving his role seemed ‘far fetched.’
Scott Hanson has become a beloved figure to NFL fans for his work on NFL RedZone
RedZone whips around between live NFL games every Sunday without commercials
Still, the situation is something to monitor as NFL Media has been cutting costs, with the company’s RedZone host for DirecTV, Andrew Siciliano, among those laid off in April.
While the NFL season of course concluded with the Super Bowl in February, Hanson kept busy this summer as one of the hosts on NBC Sports’ Gold Zone – which employed a similar style to RedZone for the Olympic Games.
At one point, Hanson even bloodied himself while cheering on Team USA by banging on a desk.
Nonetheless, the show was well received by Olympics viewers as Hanson thrived in a familiar format.
Scott Hanson bloodies himself while cheering on Team USA as another member of NBC’s Paris Olympics team injures themselves
Another member of the NBC Olympics broadcast team has injured himself, this time it’s Gold Zone host Scott Hanson.
Hanson, the longtime host of ‘NFL Red Zone’, has been called in to broadcast a similar show to the wraparound American football program that he’s been working for years.
But the man working on Peacock says that he was celebrating a Team USA swimming medal a little bit too hard.
‘I was pounding the desk on Gold Zone when Team USA was winning a medal. I’m designated ‘likely’ to return,’ Hanson wrote on Twitter as he showed a photo of his bloody pinky finger.
Hanson injured himself while cheering on Luke Hobson of the United States as he won the bronze in the 200-meter freestyle.
NBC Gold Zone host Scott Hanson has injured himself on the broadcast while watching the US
Hanson was cheering on as Luke Hobson was winning bronze in the 200m freestyle