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Matt Millen is going to be a busy broadcaster this football season.

The former Detroit Lions president, who is an NFL and college football analyst with ESPN, will also join Bob Papa to broadcast NFL Network Thursday night games this fall, the league announced Monday.

"Matt Millen is one of the best television analysts in the business and we welcome him back to the booth on Thursday Night Football," NFL Network president and CEO Steve Bornstein said in a statement. "Matt's candor, knowledge and passion for the NFL, partnered with Bob Papa, make them a very entertaining and informative announcing team."

Millen was hired in May by ESPN to serve as a college football game analyst and will contribute to ESPN's NFL studio coverage throughout the year, appearing on "Monday Night Countdown," "NFL Live," "SportsCenter," ESPNEWS and other programs.

Millen, a four-time Super Bowl winner with the Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins, began working in television in 1992 with CBS and later with Fox, where he earned acclaim as a game analyst.

He left broadcasting in 2001 to become team president of the Lions, a position he held until early last season. The Lions went 31-84 during his tenure and 0-16 last season. Millen later took responsibility for the team's decline, saying he would have fired himself after last season.

He returned to television during the 2008 NFL playoffs, as a guest analyst on NBC's pregame coverage of Super Bowl XLIII and during the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs.

A second-round pick of the Raiders in the 1980 NFL draft, Millen was an All-American defensive tackle at Penn State.