Jason Kelce is getting a crack at the booth this season, and one of the games on his ESPN schedule will land right in front of Eagles fans.
According to Ari Meirov, Kelce will call Philadelphia’s Week 5 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London. The Eagles and Jaguars last met in the regular season in 2024, when Philadelphia edged out a 28-23 win.
That London assignment is part of a four-game slate for Kelce. Two of the other games are also overseas: the Indianapolis Colts against the Washington Commanders in London, and the Pittsburgh Steelers against the New Orleans Saints in Paris. The fourth game has not been announced yet, but it will come in Week 16.
Kelce has already been around ESPN since retiring in 2024, working on the network’s Monday Night Countdown crew, the pregame show for Monday Night Football. His move into game calling comes as ESPN’s studio setup shifts for 2026, with Pat McAfee added to the panel after Ryan Clark’s dismissal. Scott Van Pelt will host the show, with Marcus Spears and Jason McCourty also at the desk.
The booth could be the next stop in a post-playing career that already has Kelce moving quickly. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are expected to stay as ESPN’s lead announcing team for the foreseeable future after signing five-year contracts in 2022, but Kelce now looks like someone who could be building toward that same lane.
Before all of that, he built a decorated run with the Eagles from 2011 to 2023. Philadelphia selected him in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft out of Cincinnati, and he went on to play in nearly 200 regular season games. Over that span, Kelce won one Super Bowl, reached another, made seven Pro Bowls, and earned six First-team All-Pro selections, including every season from 2017 to 2019 and again from 2021 to 2023.
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