Christopher Jason Witten best known by the dual name Jason Witten is an ex-professional football player who played as a tight end for 17 seasons, primarily for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
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Jason is married to his wife Michelle, an emergency room nurse at Dallas’s Parkland Memorial Hospital and they have four children: sons, C.J. and Cooper and daughters, Landry and Hadley Grace.
Jason played college football for the University of Tennessee, and was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft.
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Jason initially retired in 2018 and became a color analyst for ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
After working as an ESPN color analyst for the 2018 season, Witten returned to the NFL for the 2019 season, reuniting with the Cowboys.
He then joined the Las Vegas Raiders for the 2020 season, after which he retired again but signed a one-day contract to retire as a member of the Cowboys.
Witten ranks second in all-time career receptions and receiving yards by an NFL tight end, trailing only Tony Gonzalez.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tight ends of all time.
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