NFL analyst Tony Romo placed on leave by CBS Sports following drunk driving arrest in Wisconsin

Tony Romo, arrested a week agone connected charges related to operating a conveyance portion intoxicated, has been sidelined from his relation arsenic the apical NFL expert astatine CBS, the web announced Friday morning.

"Tony Romo is connected permission from his relation astatine CBS Sports until further notice," CBS Sports said successful a statement.

It is unclear to what grade the permission was negotiated with Romo – whether helium agreed oregon adjacent requested it truthful that helium could negociate the ineligible and idiosyncratic ramifications of his arrest.

Tony Romo mugshot from arrest. (Fox News Digital)

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It is imaginable Romo wanted this. It is besides imaginable it was foisted upon him by his leader who saw putting Romo connected aerial during this clip arsenic a atrocious strategy.

The web is replacing Romo with erstwhile Houston Texans antiaircraft lineman J.J. Watt arsenic its pb analyst. Watt volition enactment with play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline newsman Tracy Wolfson connected the No. 1 CBS announcing team.

The archetypal CBS crippled scheduled this NFL play is simply a preseason matchup betwixt the Cincinnati Bengals and Philadelphia Eagles connected Aug. 28. That primetime crippled begins astatine 8 p.m.

CBS Sports play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz (left), expert Tony Romo (center) and sideline newsman Tracy Wolfson astatine property league astatine the Super Bowl LVIII Media Center astatine the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino connected Feb. 6, 2024. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

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CBS is poised for an extended Romo leave, according to an manufacture root who added that Watt has been told his summation to the No. 1 announcing squad is indefinite.

Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office deputies stopped Romo connected Interstate 43 aft observing what their study described arsenic unsafe passing. Authorities said Romo displayed signs of impairment, performed poorly connected tract sobriety tests, and refused a preliminary enactment test.

Deputies besides reported uncovering an unfastened vessel of intoxicant wrong Romo's vehicle. Romo was cited for first-offense OWI, unsafe passing, and having an unfastened intoxicant successful a centrifugal conveyance earlier being booked and aboriginal released pending a September tribunal appearance.

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2014, record photo, Dallas Cowboys backmost Tony Romo acknowledges spectators aft a 31-17 triumph implicit the Jacksonville Jaguars successful an NFL shot crippled astatine Wembley Stadium successful London. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)

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Romo, 46, became CBS Sports' pb NFL crippled expert connected April 4, 2017, the aforesaid time helium announced his status from the NFL aft the Dallas Cowboys released him.

CBS instantly announced that Romo would regenerate Phil Simms, who had served arsenic the network's No. 1 crippled expert since 1998. Romo was paired with Nantz and Wolfson connected CBS's apical NFL broadcast team.

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