Overview
- Brees will call Packers–Giants at MetLife Stadium in Week 11 with play-by-play announcer Adam Amin and sideline reporter Kristina Pink.
- The assignment fills the booth seat vacated when Fox fired Mark Sanchez after his Oct. 4 arrest in Indianapolis.
- Sanchez has pleaded not guilty to a Level 5 felony battery charge and three misdemeanors tied to a hotel altercation with a 69-year-old truck driver during which he was stabbed, with a jury trial scheduled for Dec. 11.
- Fox announced Brees’ hire on Friday, and outlets differ on whether he joins the network’s No. 3 or No. 4 broadcast team.
- Brees previously worked in television with NBC in 2021 and more recently appeared as a guest analyst on ESPN and Fox studio shows.