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Just a month and a half after being fired by Arizona State, Herman Edwards is coming back to a world and a place he knows well — ESPN.
Edwards is returning to the Worldwide Leader in Sports as a college football and NFL analyst after previously working for ESPN from 2009-17.
? @HermEdwards is returning to ESPN as an @ESPNNFL & @ESPNCFB analyst
A coach for 30+ years, Edwards previously worked at ESPN from '09-'17
He is scheduled to appear Friday on SportsCenter
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The move is sudden and it will be immediate, as the 68-year-old Edwards is already scheduled to appear on SportsCenter this Friday.
“When Herm left for Arizona State, we said we’d keep a seat open for him,” Seth Markman, a vice president of production at ESPN, said. “After all he did for us on the air and behind the scenes, he deserved that. We are thrilled to welcome him back. There is no better teammate, and we can’t wait for him to bring his unique coaching perspective and passion for the game back for our viewers.”
Edwards played his college ball at San Diego State before embarking on a solid pro career with the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons and Los Angeles Rams.
He was a head coach in the NFL with the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and took the Arizona State job in 2018, going 26-20 before being let go earlier this fall.
Now he’s returning to the place and the role where he made a name for himself for nearly a decade — behind a microphone and in a studio instead of on the sidelines.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
