Laura Rutledge ESPN Age, Height, Husband, Salary, Net Worth
Who is Laura Rutledge?
Laura Rutledge is an American sports journalist. She appears on several programs, such as NFL Live, SEC Nation, and the college football pregame show on the SEC Network, where she serves as a reporter and host for ESPN.
Before joining ESPN, Laura worked at FOX Sports as a sideline reporter and one of her biggest highlights was providing coverage for Fox broadcasts of Tampa Bay Rays games and then San Diego Padres games.
Additionally, she contributed significantly to several live coverages for Fox College Sports during the NCPA’s 2012 National Paintball Championship in Lakeland, Florida. She started working for ESPN and the SEC Network in the 2014 summer.
Laura Rutledge Was Born in Florida
Rutledge is 35 years old as of 2023. She was born on October 2, 1988, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
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Laura Rutledge Height
Rutledge stands at an average height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m).
Laura Rutledge Education
Rutledge attended Celebration High School in Florida and later enrolled at the University of Florida where she majored in broadcast journalism.
Laura Rutledge Husband
Laura married her husband, Joshua Rutledge in 2013. They celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2023. Laura and her husband welcomed their first child, a daughter named Reese Katherine Rutledge on October 2, 2019.
Their second child, a son named Jack Alexander Rutledge was born on May 25, 2023. Joshua played baseball professionally as an infielder. He played in the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada for the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox.
Laura Rutledge’s Salary and Net Worth
Rutledge earns an average salary of $400,000 on an annual basis. Her wages have increased steadily in proportion to the duties assigned to her. Her career as a sports journalist has enabled her to create a stable source of income. Laura has an estimated net worth of $1 million as of 2024.
Laura Rutledge Career
Rutledge serves as the host of SEC Network’s SEC Nation and ESPN’s NFL Live, two daily NFL news and information programs that air every weekday throughout the year. Rutledge has steadily increased the scope of her work since joining the team in 2014 when she was a reporter for ESPN and SEC Network.
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She began hosting SEC Nation in June 2020 and was selected to host NFL Live in June of the same year. She has so far hosted the show for seven years total, with her sixth year as host coming up in 2022. Rutledge has covered more NFL games from the sidelines as her ESPN NFL portfolio keeps growing.
Rutledge reported on the sidelines of the first-ever NFL game on ESPN+, which took place in London’s Wembley Stadium in October 2022.
Apart from covering NFL Live, SEC Nation, and sidelines, Rutledge also contributes significantly to ESPN’s coverage of the NFL Draft and Pro Bowl games. Before working for NFL Live, Rutledge contributed to Get Up.
She has also served as the anchor of SportsCenter and presented red-carpet coverage for the ESPYs and The Home Depot College Football Awards. Rutledge has also provided coverage of college football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, and softball live on ESPN and SEC Network.
