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Todd McShay      

Sports Broadcaster, NFL Draft Analyst

Todd McShay joined ESPN in 2006 as a football analyst, providing in-depth scouting information on college football players across the country, including the nation's top NFL Draft prospects. McShay is a year-round contributor across ESPN's multiple platforms, including SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPNU and ESPNEWS.

McShay is the director of college football scouting for ESPN Scouts Inc., where he has been evaluating prospects for the NFL Draft since 1998, during which time numerous NFL teams have utilized his reports. In 2009, McShay joined the main telecast of ESPN's NFL Draft coverage, using Magic Board technology, analysis and debate talk-backs from ESPN's Bristol, Connecticut studios, to Radio City Music Hall in New York City. McShay has been part of ESPN's NFL Draft telecasts since 2006 providing analysis on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS.

In addition to his scouting duties, McShay also co-hosts College Game Day on ESPN Radio on Saturday's during college football season. He holds regular chats on ESPN.com, contributes to ESPN The Magazine and tapes various spots for a variety of ESPN shows where he can often be seen debating against Mel Kiper Jr. Lastly, McShay also does commentary in the video game NFL Head Coach 09.

Prior to joining ESPN, McShay worked full-time for "The War Room," (1999-2006) a start-up scouting publication created by former NFL scout, Gary Horton. It soon became a go-to source of information for 16 NFL scouting departments and became a crosscheck for CBS and The Sporting News. ESPN purchased the business in 2006 and changed the name to Scouts Inc.

Before becoming one of the nation's top NFL Draft analysts, McShay was the quarterback for the Swampscott (Mass.) High School football team (1991-94), and he was a backup quarterback for the University of Richmond (1995-97) before sustaining a back injury that ended his college career.

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