It has been just over a week since Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl tight end Jason Witten called it a career after 15 seasons all spent with the franchise. This has left a gaping hole at his position on the roster that covers not only a huge leadership role but also a leading receiving threat in the passing game.

Right out of the gate of his retirement, he will have a chance to latch onto a huge next move on ESPN's Monday Night Football Broadcast team. With all that in mind, Witten has voiced his excitement about making the transition to the booth for his next career post-NFL, according to Allie Stoneberg of ESPN.

Witten: I just want to echo the same things. I’m so excited to be joining ESPN and the Monday Night Football team, and as they said, I’m champing at the bit to get started. In January, February, March and most of April this year, I was planning on playing football, but when you’re 36 in the NFL, I think it’s fair to say that you’re always day-to-day, and when this opportunity arose to be a part of an institution like Monday Night Football, for somebody like me who just has so much respect for this game and growing up as a kid, never missing a Monday Night Football game, to join this team, and I call it a team just because I realized that early on in this process when I went through it with Joe and Jay [Rothman] and Stephanie [Druley] and Lee [Fitting] and Chip [Dean] and the entire team. I realized that it was about a team, and I felt that chemistry, and just honored to join it and to join Boog, and I’m just champing at the bit. I know I’ve got a lot of work to do. Looking forward to sharing my knowledge and my insight on the game of football that we all love.

This is a major career switch that immediately places a significant amount of pressure on him to succeed right away in the broadcast booth. It is arguably the biggest job in that form of the media covering the NFL that is a much-desired job to land that many have attempted to garner.
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Witten has much experience working in front of the camera with his various appearances on sports TV shows throughout his NFL career that has prepared him for what to expect with this next gig. It will be a major change that could have some noticeable adjustment period as he acquiesces to the broadcast booth.
Although there no certainty that he will prove to be great at his new job, it is clear that he's ready to give it his all to demonstrate that he was the right person for the position.