Pat McAfee
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| Born | Patrick Justin McAfee May 2, 1987 Plum, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Education | Plum (PA) | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | West Virginia (2005–2008) | ||||||||||||
| Occupations | Football player (2009–2016) Professional wrestler (2020–present) TV host (2018–present) | ||||||||||||
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| Ring name | Pat McAfee | ||||||||||||
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Billed weight | 233 lb (106 kg) | ||||||||||||
| Billed from | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by way of Indianapolis, Indiana | ||||||||||||
| Trained by | Rip Rogers WWE Performance Center | ||||||||||||
| Debut | 2020 | ||||||||||||
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| Positions | Punter, kickoff specialist | ||||||||||||
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| Listed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 233 lb (106 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| NFL draft | 2009: 7th round, 222nd overall pick | ||||||||||||
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Patrick Justin McAfee (/ˈmækəfi/ MAK-ə-fee; born May 2, 1987) is an American sports analyst, color commentator, and former professional football punter and kickoff specialist. He is an analyst on College GameDay and the host of the sports talk show The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN. He has also worked for the professional wrestling promotion WWE as the color commentator for Raw while also being an occasional wrestler.
McAfee was a placekicker for the West Virginia Mountaineers. He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL draft. He played in Super Bowl XLIV in his rookie year, where the Colts lost against the New Orleans Saints. McAfee made two Pro Bowls, and he was an All-Pro in 2014, during his eight-year career in the National Football League (NFL).
Since retiring from football in February 2017, McAfee has been a football analyst. He was a guest host for Fox Sports' college and NFL broadcasts in late 2018, before being announced as part of ESPN's Thursday Night College Football team in July 2019. In addition, he makes regular appearances for Get Up!. He currently licenses The Pat McAfee Show to the ESPN network, which then simulcasts the show on ESPN+ and is also broadcast on YouTube.
McAfee served as a guest commentator for WWE's NXT TakeOver events in 2018, before signing a contract with the promotion in February 2019. During 2020, he feuded with Adam Cole, making his WWE NXT in-ring debut at TakeOver XXX in a loss to Cole. He served as a color commentator for major pay-per-views and SmackDown on numerous occasions and stints throughout the 2020s, only to take hiatuses to focus on his work at College GameDay from late summer to mid-late winter the next year. McAfee returned to the WWE on December 14, 2024, to call Saturday Night's Main Event with Michael Cole and Jesse Ventura in the Main Event and partnered with Cole again for commentary on Raw on Netflix in 2025. In 2026, McAfee announced that he would be stepping away from WWE.