CBS adds second player to NFL pregame show after Russell Wilson announcement

Russell Wilson won’t be alone in starting something new at CBS.The network announced Thursday it will also welcome Kyle Long as a studio analyst for CBS Sports’ signature pregame show “The NFL Today” and will join Wilson along with Nate Burleson, Bill Cowher and host James Brown.Long, who started at CBS Sports in 2020, appeared on the show last season and now becomes a full-time member.The two former players will also serve as analysts for CBS Sports’ digital NFL pregame show streaming on Paramount+, CBS Sports HQ and the NFL ON CBS YouTube channel. The former Giants quarterback, who announced the career switch to media this week, joined Burleson in studio and announced Long’s promotion on “CBS Morning” Thursday.“Every good quarterback needs a good lineman in front of him, and we’ve got one of the best to do it.

Let’s bring out another new member of the ‘NFL Today’ team, Chicago Bears legend Kyle Long,” Burleson said.Long came out and greeted all of the “CBS Morning” team and dabbed up Wilson.“This is everything Nate.Hearing Russell talk about the transition from going from being a player to being in the media, when I first got out I said ‘Hell I don’t have a team anymore.

Where are my real friends?’ Now every Sunday, I spend time with you [points to Burleson] and now we get our guy Russell, who I’ve known since I was 14,” Long said.The two played baseball and football against each other growing up in Virginia.Wilson, who was born in Cincinnati, primarily grew up in Richmond while Long is from Ivy, V.A.“I never touched him in football,” Long said.

“He was too quick.“But this is everything a boy like me could have ever dreamed of, having watched my dad in the studio [Howie Long] and sitting on James Brown’s knee in 1994 at the desk, I knew this is where I wanted to be.CBS has been awesome and we get to do it every Sunday now.”Long, a first-round draft pick to the Bears and three-time Pro Bowler, has serv...