News about Chris Mortensen

Adam Schefter, ESPN's top NFL insider, paid a loving tribute to his colleague and longtime friend Chris Mortensen, who died on Sunday at the age of 72. Mortensen had been with ESPN from 1991 to 2023, before the network was canceled following the NFL Draft in 2000. Schefter's tribute began, 'It's quicker to ask someone about death after he has broken free from its grasp.'

On Sunday morning, Chris Mortensen, the award-winning ESPN journalist, died at the age of 72. The NFL insider, who joined ESPN in 1991, has since resigned from the network after 32 years, just prior to the 2023 NFL season in September. In a tweet on Sunday afternoon, the network announced his death in a tweet. There was no such thing as a cause of death. 'Mort was widely recognized as a technology pioneer and widely admired as a patient, hardworking colleague,' ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro noted.'

I'm excited about another season, but it's time to reveal after my 33rd NFL draft in April, I decided to step away from ESPN and instead focus on my health, family, and faith,' Mortensen said on Tuesday. The gratitude and humility that has been displayed is overwhelming.' It isn't a traditional retirement. I'll still be here talking about the ball. It's just time. "You should all be blessed," God Bless you all.' The 71-year-old wrote for The National Sports Daily, The Sporting News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before working at ESPN.

Bryce Young, C.J. In the first round of Thursday's NFL Draft, Stroud and Anthony Richardson made up three of the first four picks, but quarterback Will Levis will have to wait at least another day to find out his new team. Levis, who was expected to be the second quarterback taken off the board, sat and watched as his peers called when he was disqualified from the first round. Young, the slender and versatile quarterback of Alabama, finished No. No. The Charlotte Panthers made the switch to get their pick seven weeks after the team completed a blockbuster trade with Chicago.