For the second week of ESPN/Omaha Productions ManningCast Monday night football alternative broadcast, covering the Atlanta Falcons’ road game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Peyton and Eli Manning have recruited a standout player from the Philadelphia area who went on to have great success with the Falcons and is now a CBS Sports announcer. That would be Matt Ryan.

Ryan was born in Exton, Pennsylvania, about an hour west of Philadelphia itself. He attended William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia (the school that was founded in The Goldbergs as “William Penn Academy”, and one that also features another athlete-turned-broadcaster alumnus in Rubén Amaro Jr.), then went on to college football success with Boston College. The Falcons drafted him third overall in the 2008 NFL draft, and he played there until 2021 before finishing his playing career with the Indianapolis Colts in 2022.

Ryan began his broadcasting career last year as a game analyst for CBS (along with Andrew Catalon, Tiki Barber and reporter AJ Ross), and remained there despite rumors of a comeback to the NFL. He said, “I love what I do.” This year, he moved to the revamped CBS The NFL Today pregame show, along with James Brown, Bill Cowher, JJ Watt and Nate Burleson. And now he’s a rare NFL announcer to guest on another network’s coverage of the league.

This is the fourth season for the ManningCast, which has received a lot of praise (including Sports Emmys for the show as Outstanding Live Series in 2022 and this year, and a Sports Emmy for Peyton Manning as Outstanding Studio Analyst in 2023). There are 11 games scheduled this season, but Monday’s game is the last until Oct. 7. It will also be a big part of ESPN/ABC NFL broadcasts for a while longer, including Super Bowl LXI on ABC in 2027.

Meanwhile, the Mannings have added a high-profile regular guest in Bill Belichick (who will appear every first quarter) this offseason. They’ve also changed their approach to guests to focus more on big plays when they happen than just the interviews.

That change (indicated by Peyton Manning in a Bussin’ with the boys podcast) included a comment about possibly going to fewer guests, in which he talked about using perhaps just Belichick, one current or former player, and one non-player celebrity. (For Monday’s game, actor Miles Teller, known for whiplash, Top Gun: Maverickand more, will also be a guest.) In that interview, Manning said the most important things the broadcast needed to work on were “making sure the guests are aware of the game and that we’re always talking about what’s happening in the game”; that should certainly be easy with Ryan, given his media experience at this point, in addition to his playing experience.

Monday’s ManningCast airs on ESPN2 beginning at 8 p.m. ET.