Longtime NFL analyst Damien Woody was laid off in the latest development from ESPN's summer layoffs, but there's a silver lining. Yet another longtime ESPN employee is part of their summer layoffs, that being longtime NFL analyst Damien Woody, who has been laid off after 15 years. He was a first round pick by the Patriots during the 1999 NFL Draft out of Boston College. He joined ESPN as an NFL analyst on Aug. 5, 2011. The ESPN layoffs have taken the sports world by storm this summer.