Peter King (sportswriter)

Peter Andrew King (born June 10, 1957) is an American sportswriter. He wrote for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 2018, including a weekly multiple-page column Monday Morning Quarterback. He is the author of five books, one of which is Inside the Helmet. He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times.

Before working at Sports Illustrated, King was a writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1980 to 1985 and Newsday from 1985 to 1989. Since 1992, King has been a member of the Board of Selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. In 2006, he joined Football Night in America, NBC Sports' Sunday night show about the NFL. In May 2018, King announced that he would be ending his 29-year tenure at Sports Illustrated to work for NBC Sports full-time. He continued to publish his long-read column, now titled Football Morning in America and it appears on ProFootballTalk.

In February 2024, King announced his retirement. He spoke of looking forward excitedly to what retirement would bring citing his family's history of not choosing to retire from their respective chosen professions. When thinking of career highlights during his broadcasting career he referenced John Lynch in his first year as general manager for the San Francisco 49ers talking to team negotiator Paraag Marathe, saying, "See if we can get one last thing with Chicago (the Chicago Bears)." Marathe managed to get Chicago to add a third-round pick sweetening the deal. The Bears traded four picks (the No. 3 overall pick, a third-round pick (67th overall) and a fourth-round pick (111th overall) in the 2017 draft plus a third-round pick in the 2018 draft to the 49ers so they could move up a spot and select North Carolina quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with the No. 2 overall pick.