Mike Mayock

Mike Mayock
Mike Mayock
Date of birth: August 14, 1958 (1958-08-14) (age 53)
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Career information
Position(s): Safety
College: Boston College
NFL Draft: 1981 / Round: 10 / Pick: 265
Organizations
 As player:
1982–1983 New York Giants
Career highlights and awards
Awards: 1979 Scanlan Award
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Michael Francis Mayock (born August 14, 1958) is a former professional football player, a safety with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Mayock is currently a game analyst and a draft analyst for the NFL Network, as well as an analyst for NBC's coverage of Notre Dame football.

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Football career

Mayock played high school football at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and college football (and baseball) at Boston College. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the tenth round (#265) of the 1981 NFL Draft, the 265th overall pick. His playing career was with the New York Giants from 1982 to 1983.

Broadcasting career

Since 2005, Mayock has worked with the NFL Network, and has served as a college football analyst for ABC Sports. Prior to ABC, he called college football action for Fox Sports Net during the 2000 season, after four years (1996–99) as a member of CBS Sports' broadcast team—during which time he served as both a game analyst (1996, '97 and '99) and lead sideline reporter (1998). Mayock also worked as a reporter for CBS's coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament in 1997, '98 and '99.

He joined CBS from ESPN, where he worked as an analyst and sideline reporter for the cable network's coverage of the Canadian Football League and college football from 1993–95. Additionally, Mayock has experience covering college football for Prime Network, NCAA Productions, Prime Sports Radio and the Big East Conference.

He has been the color commentator for the Minnesota Vikings preseason games since the 2007 season.

Mayock is an analyst for NFL Network and hosts the show Path To The Draft during draft season as a draft guru. During NFL Network’s live coverage of Thursday Night Football, Mayock provides ‘Instant Playbook’ from the NFL Films studios exclusively for NFL.com/LIVE: Thursday Night Football, which presents a live show throughout the game with live look-ins of the action, plus analysis from Paul Burmeister, Jamie Dukes and Bucky Brooks from NFL Network’s Los Angeles studios.

In 2010, Mayock replaced Pat Haden as the color commentator for NBC's coverage of Notre Dame football, teaming with play-by-play announcer Tom Hammond. On January 8, 2011 Mayock teamed with Hammond to call NBC's coverage of the Wild Card playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks. This was his first NFL Playoffs game as a broadcaster.

In 2011 Mayock was named as game analyst for NFL Network's future Thursday Night Football telecasts.[1]

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