In case you hadn’t heard — or have been living under a rock recently — ESPN loves itself some Pat McAfee.

The boisterous and energetic former NFL punter, WWE personality, and show host has become the central figure in ESPN’s programming. In addition to being on College Gameday, he is also set to be a part of Monday Night Countdown this season as well. A very, very busy time for McAfee, to be sure.

But his schedule still has some time to spare, it seems, as he’ll be entering the NFL broadcast domain of his former Indianapolis Colts teammate Peyton Manning.

Per The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, ESPN is poised to add a Monday Night Football McAfee alt-cast this season.

ESPN and Pat McAfee reportedly close to a deal for an alternate Monday Night Football broadcast

Peyton and Eli Manning have hosted popular Monday Night Football alt-casts for years through Omaha Productions. However, they have not had an alt-cast for every single Monday game of the season. And that’s where McAfee would come in.

Per Marchand, a McAfee alt-cast would not be replacing any Manningcasts, but rather supplementing them.

“If the NFL approves, McAfee and his team would likely do games on ESPN2 in the weeks when the Mannings aren’t airing,” Marchand wrote. “The Mannings are scheduled to analyze 12 games plus the Super Bowl this season. McAfee could do around eight games, though the exact number is not yet known.”

That makes a lot of sense. First, there’s nothing to bump the Mannings off the air, so there’s no real controversy there. And McAfee’s alt-casts have been very popular for the network. Marchand notes that McAfee’s alt-cast of the Ohio State Oregon playoff game from January 2025 had 2.3 million viewers.

Love him or hate him, McAfee is going nowhere but up with the network, and it looks like that rocket upwards will continue further very soon.