JAKE BUTT BIO

Former NFL tight end Jake Butt joins the FOX Sports team in 2024 as a sideline reporter for the newly launched United Football League (UFL), moving over from the same role he filled with the USFL on FOX last season. Butt, who played for the Denver Broncos from 2017 to 2020, also has served as a college football analyst for the Big Ten Network since 2022.

Butt retired from the NFL after a series of injuries in 2021.

Playing his college career at the University of Michigan, Butt was a first-team All-American and Kwalick-Clark Tight End of the Year in both 2015 and 2016. In his senior season with the Wolverines, Butt was voted team captain by his teammates and later honored with the prestigious John Mackey Award, given to the top tight end in college football.

A four-year letterman at Michigan, Butt graduated from the College of Literature, Science and Arts with a degree in sociology.

Born and raised in Pinkerington, Ohio, Butt attended Pinkerington High School North, where he caught 96 passes for 1,361 yards with 20 touchdowns and posted 142 tackles and 20.5 sacks. He pulled in 68 catches for 907 yards with 12 touchdowns as a senior and received Associated Press Division I All-Ohio first-team recognition.