Mike Tannenbaum net worth: ESPN front office insider salary, job history, & more

It feels like Christmas Eve to NFL fans, as tomorrow, every fanbase will once again start drinking the Kool-Aid that this could be their year when the 2025 NFL Draft starts.

Yes, the draft is when every optimistic thought a fan has flows through the bloodstream, and their respective team will have hit a home run on every selection.

It's a good day to be a member of any team's front office. Lucky for the fans, ESPN has a top front office insider in Mike Tannenbaum.

Tannenbaum will almost certainly be a part of the network's draft coverage. However, let's take a closer look at one of the Worldwide Leader's top talents.

Front Office Experience

Miami Dolphins executive vice president of business operations Mike Tannenbaum looks on at the 2015 NFL International Series Fan Rally at Trafalgar Square. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

How does one become a front office insider? That's easy: you bring the experience of being in one of those roles.

Before Tannenbaum joined ESPN, the front office insider spent time as an executive with the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets. In both stops, Tannenbaum served as executive vice president and was general manager for the Jets from 2006 to 2012.

Net Worth

New York Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum walks off the field following training camp at SUNY Cortland. / Rich Barnes-Imagn Images

While athlete contracts are plastered all over our television screens at all times, it's a little harder to find the net worth of a former NFL executive.

However, something tells me that if you have ever worked in an NFL front office, then one may be living quite comfortably when it comes to finances.

Can't Avoid Hot Takes

The rest of 'Get Up' couldn't believe Mike Tannenbaum's trade proposal:

Detroit Lions get: Myles Garrett

Cleveland Browns get: Three first-round picks, a 2026 second-round pick, Jahmyr Gibbs. pic.twitter.com/DNyf5W1ddg
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 1, 2024

Even an NFL front office insider can't avoid delivering hot takes on ESPN. Maybe the most headline buzz Tannenbaum has made with the network was during last season, when he said the Detroit Lions should make an insane trade for Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett.

Tannenbaum might have heard the discussions surrounding Stephen A. Smith's new contract and thought it would be a good time to deliver a scolding hot take.

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