What Tony Romo's leave means for CBS' NFL coverage

There is nary timetable for NFL expert Tony Romo’s instrumentality to CBS Sports, the division’s president David Berson said Tuesday.

Romo was placed connected permission by CBS aft helium was arrested successful Milwaukee connected suspicion of operating a conveyance portion intoxicated connected July 23. JJ Watt, a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, volition enactment alongside Jim Nantz and sideline newsman Tracy Wolfson arsenic CBS’ pb broadcast squad during Romo’s absence.

No determination has been made connected Romo’s semipermanent aboriginal astatine the network, Berson told journalists astatine the network’s yearly property briefing connected the NFL play astatine genitor institution Paramount’s New York headquarters.

Berson called Romo’s ineligible matters “an evolving situation.” He added that naming Watt, who joined CBS arsenic an NFL expert successful 2023, arsenic an interim replacement was indispensable arsenic the archetypal kickoff is simply a period away.

“Since it continues to evolve, and we’re connected the eve of the season,” Berson said “I felt it’s precise important that our team, the many, galore hundreds of radical enactment connected the NFL and CBS, person certainty and direction, truthful we tin definitively program and absorption connected the accumulation and selling arsenic we footwear disconnected the season.”

Romo has a tribunal proceeding scheduled for Sept. 21, He was arrested connected suspicion of operating a conveyance portion intoxicated and received citations for having an unfastened instrumentality successful a moving conveyance and unsafe passing.

Romo joined CBS arsenic an NFL expert successful 2017. He had a 14-year vocation arsenic a backmost with the Dallas Cowboys. He led the squad to six playoff appearances and was named to the NFL Pro Bowl squad 4 times.