Jeff Darlington

Jeff Darlington (born November 10, 1981, in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an Emmy-award winning television reporter with ESPN, where he appears on such shows as Sunday NFL Countdown, SportsCenter, Get Up and NFL Live.

Jeff Darlington has covered sports in Florida – including college football and the NFL – since 2000.

Before covering the NFL and the Dolphins, he wrote about the football and men's basketball programs at the University of Florida for the Orlando Sentinel.

Darlington also is a graduate of UF.

Darlington appeared briefly in a cameo role with Kevin Costner in the movie Draft Day.

Darlington attended Seminole High School in Seminole, Florida.

He has covered the NFL since 2005.

Nominated multiple times for Sports Emmys, he is best known for high-level interviews with NFL stars like Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Jared Goff.

In 2010, he was named South Florida's "Best Sports Writer."

Darlington still resides in Fort Lauderdale but is often traveling to NFL cities.

He previously covered the NFL for the NFL Network and NFL.com from 2011 to 2016.

For six seasons prior to 2011, he covered the Miami Dolphins for The Miami Herald.