Josh Allen open to broadcasting after football: ‘It would be something I would entertain’

Josh Allen has thought about life after football — and broadcasting is somewhere in the picture, with conditions.

In an interview with CNBC Sports, the Buffalo Bills quarterback said he’d be open to a career in broadcasting once his playing days are over, but stopped well short of committing to it.

“I do think it would be cool if you can keep it from a strictly broadcasting angle,” Allen said. “When players go from players to journalists and say certain things that they hated people saying about them, I think that’s where it gets a little murky for me. But I do think that it would be something I would entertain. I can’t say for sure ‘yes’ or for sure ‘no’ right now, because I do go back and forth on it. But yeah, I’d have to put some more thought into it.”

Allen has been one of the most closely analyzed quarterbacks in the sport since entering the league in 2018, and the pendulum of media opinion has swung in both directions throughout his career, almost reverential to a fault when things go well, unsparing when they don’t.

Tony Romo’s adoration for Allen has been noted — and criticized — on more than one occasion, with Romo’s tendency to fawn over him openly during broadcasts drawing its own share of backlash from viewers. At the same time, Bomani Jones and Nick Wright argued earlier this year that the media broadly has treated Allen with a sympathetic touch that borders on advocacy, caping for him in ways that would be considered inappropriate for other quarterbacks who consistently fall short in big moments.

Whether Allen ultimately pursues broadcasting may depend on whether he can do it on his own terms. But TV is far from his only option if he decides it isn’t worth the compromise, given that he’s already signed a deal with Skydance Sports to develop scripted, unscripted, and branded content.