ESPN gives new contract to ‘one of the company’s most decorated and recognizable reporters’

ESPN has given a new contract to Lisa Salters.

With the 2025 Monday Night Football season on the horizon, ESPN has extended Salters, elevated Laura Rutledge’s sideline reporting role and added both Katie George and Peter Schrager to its game coverage, resulting in two sideline reporters for all 25 NFL on ESPN games.

Rutledge will join Monday Night Football ’s Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Salters for all their telecasts (20 games), while George and Schrager join Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick for five games – the four weeks Monday Night Football has multiple games (Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 7) and the Doubleheader Saturday in Week 18.

Salters’ contract extension further cements the Emmy-winner as the longest-tenured sideline reporter in Monday Night Football history, set t