In the announcement, ESPN President of Content Burke Magnus praised Jason for his “strong connection to fans” and being “highly respected” in the sport.

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“Walking off the field and immediately to ESPN,” the exec said in a statement, “viewers will benefit from his perspective which has been shaped through his years as an established locker room leader and a future Hall of Fame center.”

Jason—who shares daughters Wyatt, 4, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 14 months with wife of six years Kylie Kelce—has talked before about how excited he was to finalize his job with ESPN.

“Throughout the whole process,” he said on the May 1 episode of his podcast New Heights, “and meeting and talking to everybody over at ESPN, it became apparent that it was the right fit.”

And as his brother Travis Kelce pointed out, ESPN’s show SportsCenter “fueled our love for sports,” adding, “Because we used to live and die by ESPN on that TV growing up.”

To take a deep dive into Jason’s life off the field, keep reading.

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2015

Jason Kelce doesn’t want you to know he met his wife Kylie Kelce on a dating app. Too bad she wasn’t afraid to reveal how their relationship began in the Prime Video Kelce documentary.

“Jason won’t let me lie about this,” Kylie shared. “We met on Tinder.”

When Kylie first encountered Jason’s profile, she didn’t recognize the Philadelphia Eagles center, explaining, “None of his pictures showed Eagles football.”

However, after she and her friends thought he looked “kind of familiar,” they did what millennial women do best: A Google image search. And when Kylie put a name to the face, she was confident she was being played.

“It can’t be him,” she remembered thinking, “it’s a catfish.”

Still, she took a chance. And in 2015, she shared the first photo of the couple on Instagram, writing, “Thank goodness you swiped right too.”

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2015

While Jason and Kylie ultimately hit it off, their first date didn’t go according to the game plan.

“You fell asleep 45 minutes after I got there on the bar table because he was too drunk,”  Kylie revealed on Jason’s New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with his brother Travis Kelce.

Though he was admittedly “inebriated,” Jason said, “I was sober enough to know it was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. It was love at first sight.”

Still, Kylie admitted it took her awhile to fully commit to the idea of being in a relationship with a professional athlete.

“I didn’t tell anyone who I was dating,” she explained. “The last thing I wanted was to be like, ‘I think I’m falling for this guy and then have him be like, ‘Oh, I have six other girls waiting,’ which is the stereotype of a football player.”

However, in hindsight, Kylie admitted. “It’s entertaining that there was any hesitation at all.”

“Our dynamic made it so not that I was in a relationship with a professional athlete,” she continued, “it was very much that I was in a relationship wth Jason whose profession was football.”

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August 2017

She said yes! But only after putting up with some of Jason’s B.S.

During the Sept. 7 episode of the New Heights podcast, the couple shared their engagement story, which Jason prefaced by admitting he is not a “romantic” person.

The NFL star proposed to Kylie in his car while they were leaving her parents’ house.

“I couldn’t figure out how to inconspicuously go back into the house,” he explained, “because if I was like, ‘Hey I gotta go talk to you dad for a second,’ it would have been very odd of me to say that.”

Instead, Jason went with, um, option No. 2: “When we got in the car, I said, ‘Ky, I’m sorry but I gotta take a s–t.'”

However, Kylie immediately knew Jason was up to something when he returned minutes later. “He came back out and I said, ‘Jason, I know you didn’t just go in there and take a s—t, it usually takes you 20 minutes.'”

Jason then cut the bulls–t and got down to business.

“He said, ‘This isn’t the most romantic way to do this,'” Kylie recalled, “and I immediately started crying because I knew what was happening only because he referenced being romantic.”