Ryan Clark and ‘The Pivot’ make moves with Netflix in multi-year partnership

Months after his firing from ESPN, Clark is expanding his highly popular podcast alongside fellow former NFL players Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor.

Ryan Clark and “The Pivot” are expanding from YouTube to one of the world’s biggest streaming platforms.

On Monday, Netflix announced it was adding the popular show featuring Clark and former NFL players Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor to its podcast roster beginning Sept. 8. The streamer is already the podcast home for several former NFL stars, including Michael Irvin, and is the home for new episodes of “The Breakfast Club,” “Joe And Jada,” “On Purpose With Jay Shetty,” and more.

Boardroom was first to announce the partnership.

Since 2022, when Crowder and Taylor split from Brandon Marshall’s “I Am Athlete,” the trio has grown “The Pivot” into one of the premier destinations for interviews and candid conversations with wide-ranging guests from the worlds of sports, pop culture, entertainment and more, releasing over 500 episodes and acquiring billions of views on YouTube.

According to the terms of the partnership, Netflix is also adding a hand to Clark’s Pivot25 production company, as it will produce bonus episodes exclusively for the platform and has first negotiation rights on any new content produced overall.

Naturally, to celebrate the move, Taylor, Clark and Crowder shot a promotional video in which they say “The Pivot” can no longer just “chill” now that they’re on Netflix.

“From [the] bottom of our hearts, to everyone who has watched, listened, shared, commented, debated, laughed, cried, and rocked with us from day one — this one is because of you,” Clark wrote on Instagram, reiterating that “The Pivot” would remain available on all available streaming platforms and YouTube, but that Netflix would get first dibs on content now.

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The announcement comes a little over a month after Clark was fired from ESPN after more than a decade at the network. Unlike other on-air talent who were laid off during that same time period, Clark was fired as he finished his final on-air segment for “NFL Live.”

“They’re using layoffs as a cover and a camouflage for what they already intended on doing,” Clark told his “Pivot” co-stars days after his firing. “But there was no cause for it. So, because there was no cause for it, you couldn’t just fire me, so you had to wait until the layoffs, so you could camouflage it and veil it.

“If I was laid off like everybody else, it came out on Tuesday. Mine came out on Friday.”