ESPN Jeopardy! is an American television game show adapted from the quiz show Jeopardy! The show is centered around sports trivia, and features sports personalities, primarily those associated with ESPN, as contestants playing for charity. Sportscaster Joe Buck hosts the show.
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Conception and development
In April 2026, it was reported that The Walt Disney Company had ordered a new sports-themed spin-off of the game show Jeopardy! to air on the streaming services Disney+ and Hulu, as well as ESPN's streaming service. Joe Buck, who currently serves as the lead NFL play-by-play announcer for ESPN, agreed to a deal to serve as the host for ESPN Jeopardy!. Buck had briefly served as a guest host for Jeopardy! in 2021 following longtime host Alex Trebek's death.
This is the second sports-themed spinoff of Jeopardy!, after Sports Jeopardy! which was produced from 2014 to 2016. Unlike that version, which had civilian contestants, only existing sports personalities, mostly from ESPN, will take part in ESPN Jeopardy!
During a podcast interview with Tim Kurkjian, Buck indicated that the show would follow the one-hour Celebrity Jeopardy! format, including the Triple Jeopardy! round, albeit with points used as scoring.
Contestants
Season 1 (July 31, 2026)
Christine Williamson (Hillsborough Education Foundation)
Jeremy Schaap (International Sports and Music Project)
Kimberley A. Martin (YAI: Seeing Beyond Disability)
MJ Acosta-Ruiz (Health in the Hood)
Peter Schrager (Baby Quest Foundation)
Omar Raja (Humanity First USA)
Jon Hamm (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Keegan-Michael Key (Motion Picture & Television Fund)
Adam Pally (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Hannah Storm (Hannah Storm Foundation)
Jay Harris (Boys & Girls Clubs of America)
Amina Smith (The Dinner Table Doc)
Kyle Brandt (Pancreatic Cancer Action Network)
Jamie Erdahl (American Heart Association)
Manti Te'o (Lāhui Foundation)
Kevin Negandhi (Connecticut Children's Foundation)
Domonique Foxworth (Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust Inc.)
Madelyn Burke (Room to Grow)
Episodes
Season 1 (July 31, 2026)
The six quarterfinal winners advanced to semifinals, as well as three Wild Cards. Wild Cards were determined by the three contestants with the highest number of correct answers during the game.
Quarterfinal losers receive $30,000 for their charities.
Semifinal losers receive $50,000 for their charities.
Champion receives $500,000 for his charity; the two runners-up receive $100,000 for their charities. Any ties will be resolved by a sudden-death category imposed on tied players, with first player buzzing in correctly wins it; if wrong, others can ring in to try to win it; if all tied players get it wrong the process is repeated until someone wins it.