Cris Collinsworth is gearing up to call Super Bowl LX on Sunday, Feb. 8, between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots as NBC Sports’ top NFL announcer and color commentator.

The game will mark Collinsworth’s sixth Super Bowl as an NFL commentator. He previously called five Super Bowls (XXXIX, XLVI, XLIX, LII, and LVI). The appearance in Sunday’s game marks his fifth time calling a game featuring the Patriots. 

The former college football and NFL star has built quite a career as a broadcaster. With the big game around the corner, many fans are curious about Collinsworth’s net worth and yearly salary. Let’s dive in.

Cris Collinsworth’s net worth and salary in 2025

Collinsworth was working toward a new four-year contract extension with NBC back in September, per The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand. The deal would keep him with the network through the 2029-2030 NFL season. His annual salary is reported at $12.5 million. His previous reported salary as an NFL color commentator and TV commentator way $4 million annually. Based on his NFL and broadcasting careers, Celebrity Net Worth estimates his net worth at $25 million.

The reality is that this number is likely much higher because it doesn’t include Collinsworth’s majority ownership stake in Pro Football Focus (PFF), a successful sports analytics and tracking service that launched in 2007 and came under Collinsworth’s ownership in 2014. In 2021, PFF was valued at $160 million, but that was before they received a $50 million investment from the private equity firm Silver Lake, with the goal of expanding their grading and analytics services to other sports. It’s unclear whether the company has gained or lost value in the years since that investment.

Cris Collinsworth’s broadcasting career

Collinsworth’s early broadcasting career began as a sports talk radio host at Cincinnati’s WLW in the late ’80s. In 1989, he earned his first role in television broadcasting as a reporter for HBO’s “Inside the NFL.” From there, he made the jump to NBC, taking part in some of their NFL and college football broadcasts as an analyst. He joined the NBC pregame show during the 1996 NFL season.

In 1998, Collinsworth joined FOX as a part of the NFL on FOX pregame coverage. He later shifted to support FOX’s lead broadcast team featuring Joe Buck and Troy Aikman in 2002, working a three-man booth. As of 2006, Collinsworth’s broadcasting roles spanned three networks. He was a co-host of “Inside the NFL” on HBO; he returned to NBC Sports as a studio analyst for “Sunday Night Football” coverage; and he joined NFL Network to provide color commentary alongside Bryant Gumbel and Bob Papa for “Thursday Night Football” games.

Upon John Madden’s retirement in 2009, Collinsworth joined NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” broadcast as a color commentator, teaming up with play-by-play man Al Michaels. Those two spent over a decade together, delivering memorable calls on games throughout the regular season and playoffs.

When Michaels left to team up with Kirk Herbstreit for Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” broadcast in 2022, that’s when fans got the booth pairing they’ll see in Super Bowl LX with Collinsworth alongside Mike Tirico.

Collinsworth has won 17 Sports Emmy Awards, including eight for Outstanding Sports Studio Analyst and Nine for Outstanding Sports Field Analyst.

Cris Collinsworth’s Football Career

Collinsworth was initially recruited as an option quarterback for the Florida Gators in 1977. His first collegiate passing attempt was a 99-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Gafney, which remains tied for the longest touchdown pass in NCAA history. In his second season with the Gators in 1978, a scheme change led Collinsworth to switch to the wide receiver position. He recorded 120 receptions for 1937 yards and 14 touchdown grabs over three seasons as a receiver at UF, earning First-Team All-SEC selections in each of those three seasons.

The 6-foot-5 and 192-pound wideout declared for the 1981 NFL Draft and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals at Pick No. 37 in the second round. He played eight seasons in the NFL, all with the Bengals, recording 417 receptions for 6,698 yards and 36 touchdowns. He had four career 1,000-yard receiving seasons, earning three Second-Team All-Pro selections and three Pro Bowl selections during his NFL career.

Collinsworth was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991 as part of the centennial class celebrating 100 years of Florida Gator football. In 2017, Collinsworth was selected as a member of the Bengals’ 50th anniversary team alongside fellow Cincy receivers Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Isaac Curtis.

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