Peter King Announces Departure from Sports Illustrated After 29 Years

Longtime NFL writer Peter King announced on Thursday he is leaving Sports Illustrated at the end of this month after 29 years:

"I just felt it was time to move on from the 24/7-ness of football coverage and try something a little bit different. My 29 years at Sports Illustrated have been, collectively, a dream come true. I'll always be grateful to Mark Mulvoy for hiring a green 31-year-old kid in 1989, just as I'm grateful to my current boss, Chris Stone, for the opportunities and support he's given me in recent years. For three decades, I've had the job of a lifetime in the sports media business, and I will be forever grateful to SI. I leave at the end of May with immense gratitude to my editors over the years and to my staff at The MMQB since 2013. Thanks, from the bottom of my heart.''

Per Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, King will join NBC Sports to cover the NFL, with his weekly Monday morning column running on the website starting in July. 

King has been hinting that a change could be coming for him as recently as Super Bowl LII. He told The Big Lead's Ryan Glasspiegel in February that he was thinking of at least scaling back his responsibilities. 

"I really don't want to do quite as much as I'm doing right now," King said. 

The 60-year-old King has been at Sports Illustrated since 1989. He has also done television work with NBC since 2006, appearing as a regular contributor on Football Night in America.