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FOX Sports is promoting a new reporter to cover the NFL sidelines next season, with Front Office Sports reporting that Allison Williams will take over from Laura Okmin, who is set to leave the network.
Williams joined FOX Sports as a college football sideline reporter in 2022 after an acrimonious breakup with ESPN over the company’s COVID-19 vaccine protocols.
She was trying for a second child with her husband then and, after consulting with her doctor and a fertility specialist, opted against taking the vaccine. She would announce her departure in 2021 after Disney rejected her request for special dispensation.
“Belief is a word I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, because in addition to the medical apprehensions regarding my desire to have another child in regards to receiving this injection, I am also so morally and ethically not aligned with this,” she said in a tearful Instagram video.
Following a 10-year stint at The Worldwide Leader in Sports, she moved to FOX, where she’s been promoted ahead of next season.
Meanwhile, Okmin is leaving after turning down a contract extension last month. She will depart as the third-longest tenured sideline reporter in NFL history, telling FOS she wants to focus on her female sports mentoring company, GALvanize.
However, she will continue to cover the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl for Westwood One Sports radio.
Okmin was on a team with play-by-play announcer Kevin Kugler and color commentator Daryl “Moose” Johnston last season.
Other sideline reporters under contract at FOX include Erin Andrews, who just extended, Tom Rinaldi, Pam Oliver, Megan Olivi, Kristina Pink, and Jen Hale.
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