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Nov 25, 2021; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees stands on the sidelines before the game between the New Orleans Saints and the Buffalo Bills at the Caesars Superdome. Brees is b being honored at half-time of the game that he is also announcing for NBC. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-Imagn Images <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\nFox is hiring Drew Brees as a full-time NFL game analyst and is likely moving on from the embattled Mark Sanchez, The Athletic reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Brees, a 13-time Pro Bowl quarterback, joins a lineup featuring Tom Brady and Greg Olsen and will be in the broadcast booth a week from Sunday, per the report.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Exact terms of his deal and specific game assignments are not yet known.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n Brees would likely be paired with play-by-play man Adam Amin, who had been working with Sanchez, 38, before the latter’s arrest for battery following an early October altercation in Indianapolis. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Brees, 46, retired from the NFL after the 2020 season and spent the 2021 season with NBC Sports, working as a color analyst for the network’s Notre Dame broadcasts and appearing on “Football Night in America.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Brees has also done studio work with Fox and ESPN and served as an analyst for Netflix’s international feed last Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Brees led the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl XLIV championship in the 2009 season and was a two-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year. He ranks second behind Brady in NFL history in passing yards (80,358) and touchdown passes (571).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n