Mark Schlereth will replace Mark Sanchez on Fox Sports’s NFL game coverage this week as the network wrestles with the fallout from the ex-Jets QB’s stabbing and arrest in Indianapolis.
Schlereth, a three-time Super Bowl champion with Denver and Washington, will replace Sanchez as the game analyst on Fox’s telecast of Seahawks-Jaguars at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.
The 59-year-old color commentator will work alongside play-by-play announcer Chris Myers and sideline reporter Sarah Kustok, according to a post on X/Twitter listing the network’s NFL broadcast teams for this weekend. Schlereth started calling NFL games for Fox during the 2017–18 season.
Sanchez, 38, was arrested in an Indianapolis hospital following his violent altercation with 69-year-old truck driver Perry Tole in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Sanchez was in town to call the Oct. 5 Raiders-Colts game with Myers. Fox replaced him in the broadcast booth with Brady Quinn.
Sanchez is facing a felony charge of battery and misdemeanor charges of battery with injury, unlawful entry of a motor vehicle, and public intoxication. Tole has filed a lawsuit in state court against both Sanchez and Fox.
For now, at least, Fox is making a week-to-week decision for Sanchez’s replacement as his situation plays out. Besides having its studio hosts briefly address the incident on-air, Fox has declined further comment on Sanchez and the lawsuit.
