Randy Moss to Return to ‘Sunday NFL Countdown’ for 2025-26 Season

Incredible news, football fans.

Randy Moss broadcasts from the ESPN Monday Night Football Countdown set on Oct 4, 2021. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

Great news, football fans—Hall of Fame wide receiver and football broadcaster Randy Moss is expected to return to “Sunday NFL Countdown” full-time for this upcoming season, ESPN confirmed to The Athletic on Tuesday.

Moss was forced to take a hiatus at the end of last season due to a cancer diagnosis, but did appear alongside other hosts during the Super Bowl.

“Randy’s return on Super Bowl Sunday was an emotional lift—not just for our team but for the entire football community—and knowing he will resume his full Sunday NFL Countdown schedule, beginning in Week 1, has been the highlight of the offseason,” ESPN told  The Athletic in a statement.

Moss, 48, originally revealed his cancer diagnosis in December of 2024, when he said he had recently undergone surgery for cancer found outside his bile duct and would be continuing treatment with chemotherapy and radiation.

“Your boy is a cancer survivor,” Moss said at the time. “I’m nursing myself back. I’m here with my family, and I can’t wait to bust some of y’all heads on Call of Duty or NBA 2K .”

Safe to say he’ll be welcomed back with open arms in the fall.

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BRIGID KENNEDY

Brigid Kennedy is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, she covered political news, sporting news and culture at TheWeek.com before moving to Livingetc, an interior design magazine. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, dual majoring in television, radio and film (from the Newhouse School of Public Communications) and marketing managment (from the Whitman School of Management). Offline, she enjoys going to the movies, reading and watching the Steelers.

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