With Tomlin Signed, Philip Rivers Becomes NFL Media’s Top TV Target
The 44-year-old started three games for the Colts last season.
With Mike Tomlin off the board, Philip Rivers is the next man up for NFL media partners looking for new TV talent. The 44-year-old former QB is emerging as the next hot NFL TV free agent, sources tell Front Office Sports . The Alabama-born Rivers’ folksy personality has been compared to the late, great “Dandy” Don Meredith.
He checks all the boxes that networks and streamers look for in their NFL game and studio analysts. Rivers is fresh off the field again after returning from a five-year retirement to play for the Colts last season. Indianapolis went 0-3 with the eight-time Pro Bowl selection as its starter.
But the miraculous comeback of Rivers—who became a grandfather in 2024—reintroduced the former star to a new generation of football fans. Quarterbacks are always in demand as analysts by the league’s media partners. Few could sling it better than Rivers, who ranks No.
6 and No. 8 respectively in all-time yardage (63,984) and TD passes (425) among NFL QBs. That’s better on both counts than two-time Super Bowl winner Eli Manning, who was famously traded for Rivers and multiple draft picks at the 2004 NFL Draft.