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Tony Romo has been placed on leave from CBS Sports following his arrest on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence. J.J. Watt will replace him during his absence.

First seen Jul 31, 2026 · 6:00 PM UTC · last updated Aug 01 6:01 AM

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This one's purely a media-desk story with no fantasy football relevance — neither Tony Romo nor J.J. Watt is an active NFL player, so nothing here touches roster construction, snap counts, or usage. Romo has been retired from playing for years and works as a broadcaster; his OWI arrest and subsequent leave from CBS Sports is a career/media-industry matter, not a football-performance one. J.J. Watt, who retired from playing, is stepping into the CBS booth in Romo's place, which again is a broadcasting assignment change with zero bearing on any team's depth chart or a fantasy roster.

There is no action to take here for your draft prep — no add, drop, or trade consideration applies since neither name occupies a roster spot in fantasy leagues. Confidence in the reporting itself is high across all three sources (95-100%), so the event is treated as factual, but the impact score of -1.0 reflects reputational/media noise rather than any football production shift. File this under off-field news to monitor only if it somehow affects broadcast coverage of games you're scouting, not as anything that moves player values, ADP, or your board this offseason.

ROMO ON LEAVE FROM CBS SPORTS AFTER OWI ARRESTTONY ROMO ON LEAVE FROM CBS SPORTS AFTER ARREST ON SUSPICION OF OPERATING VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Tony Romo has been placed on leave from his role as the lead analyst on CBS’ NFL coverage following his arrest last week on suspicion of operating a vehicle while under the influence.

CBS Sports announced Friday that the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was on leave “until further notice.” J.J. Watt will join Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson as CBS Sports’ lead NFL team during Romo’s absence.

Romo, 46, was arrested July 23 after he was stopped while driving south on Interstate 43 in Wisconsin. According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office report, Romo performed poorly on field sobriety tests before getting taken into custody, booked and released.

He has a court date set for Sept. 21.

CBS Sports’ announcement comes after citations released by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office indicated an open bottle of an alcoholic beverage was found in the passenger’s side of Romo’s black Jeep during an inventory before it was towed.

According to the citations, police stopped Romo after he was seen passing cars in a gore area, which separates interstate traffic from cars entering from an on-ramp. Police said Romo questioned what a gore area was during the stop.

Body camera footage released earlier this week showed Romo telling deputies he had been coming from a golf course and was on his way “to visit grandma and grandpa” when he was stopped. A deputy told Romo he suspected him of being impaired because he had “red glassy eyes” and an “odor of an intoxicating alcoholic beverage.”

Romo went to high school about 35 miles from Milwaukee in Burlington, Wisconsin.

He has been the lead game analyst for CBS’ NFL coverage since 2017 after making four Pro Bowl appearances during an NFL career that ran from 2004-2016 and was spent entirely with Dallas.

Romo remains the Cowboys’ franchise leader in career touchdown passes with 248. He held the franchise record for career passing yards (34,183) until Dak Prescott overtook him last season.

Watt joined CBS in 2023. He was an analyst on “The NFL Today” for two seasons before teaming with Ian Eagle on the network’s No. 2 crew beginning last season.

Romo wasn’t expected to have his first game until the opening Sunday of the regular season on Sept. 13. CBS will air a preseason game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Philadelphia Eagles on Aug. 28.

CBS likely will reveal its game assignments and announcer pairings for the first three weeks of the regular season in the next couple of weeks.

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Coverage from Nfl Dot Com News · by Associated Press · Jul 31, 2026 · read original