ESPN's Tom Jackson is "likely" leaving the system as a NFL examiner following 28 yearsESPN's Tom Jackson is "likely" leaving the system as a NFL examiner following 28 years

ESPN's Tom Jackson is "likely" leaving the system as a NFL examiner following 28 years

Tom Jackson reportedly leaving ESPN

Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News reports that Jackson is not anticipated that would come back to "Sunday NFL Countdown" this up and coming season. Jackson, a previous NFL linebacker who went through his whole profession with the Denver Broncos, had showed up on the show close by Chris Berman since 1987.

While Raissman's source said Jackson is as yet "measuring his choices" and could choose to come back to ESPN, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk is reporting that Jackson has effectively decided and won't be back.

Berman himself is entering his last year as a main voice on ESPN's NFL scope. "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "Monday Night Countdown" are experiencing major on-air work force changes during an era when the system has lost any semblance of Bill Simmons, Skip Bayless, Colin Cowherd and Mike Tirico.

Sway Raissman of the New York Daily News was the first to report Monday that Jackson was "likely" not to come back to his recognizable spot on the Sunday "Commencement" board. "Regardless
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ESPN's Tom Jackson is "likely" leaving the system as a NFL examiner following 28 years

measuring his choices," Raissman cited a source as saying. "This will be Tommy's call. … The circumstance is fluid."My conjecture is Tom Jackson is going to leave," another source told Raissman. In 2015, Jackson, an individual from the Broncos' Ring of Fame, was given the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

refered to "various industry sources" in guaranteeing that "Jackson won't return." The site showed that ESPN's re-enlisting of Trent Dilfer, who had been supposed to set out somewhere else toward more cash, depended on a desire of the void Jackson would abandon.

Jackson was chosen by Denver in the fourth round of the 1973 NFL draft, and Tom Jackson went ahead to spend the sum of his 14-year NFL profession with that establishment. Tom Jackson was a three-time Pro Bowler, was named first-group all-star after the 1977 season and played in two Super Bowls.

In the event that Berman and Jackson both leave by 2017, "Sunday NFL Countdown" would have an altogether diverse look from 2015, when its board additionally highlighted Cris Carter, Keyshawn Johnson and Mike Ditka, a trio that has been supplanted with Dilfer, Randy Moss, Matt Hasselbeck and Charles Woodson.

Unless, obviously, that triumph lap will be about Berman and/or comprise of Berman grumbling about the way that ESPN administration has evidently poked him out.Tom Jackson