Joel Klatt (born February 4, 1982) is an American college football color commentator and analyst for Fox Sports.

[2] As a junior, he had four interceptions playing in the secondary, helping the team to a 9–3 record, and winning the Jefferson County league championship.

As a senior at quarterback, he led the team to a 6–5 record, earned second-team all-state honors, and finished completing 78 of 125 passes (62.4%) for 1,250 yards and sixteen touchdowns.

He played primarily at shortstop in baseball, earning first-team all-state in his senior year and helping his team finish as runner-ups in the state tournament.

In 2001, he played for the Idaho Falls Padres, where he batted .208 with two home runs, ten RBIs, and three stolen bases in 45 games.

As a true freshman, he played in three games, mostly on the punt return team as a rusher and blocker against Missouri and Iowa State.

He continued to set records at Colorado and led the team to the Big 12 Conference North title before losing the championship game to Oklahoma.

He was on the official watch list for the Davey O'Brien Award (one of 42 candidates), and Street & Smith’s selected him as an honorable mention preseason All-American.

"[6] Further: "If they want to exploit us, as athletes, and sell our jerseys and put us on video games, then perhaps they should protect us on the field better, so that we can, in the future, get that compensation and possibly go to the NFL.

[11][12] Klatt's first opportunity in broadcasting came when he filled in as an analyst on Friday night high school football games in the Denver area in the fall of 2006 for FSN Rocky Mountain.

He hosted a series of sports radio shows in the Denver area from 2007 to 2012, including a popular program on the FM station 104.3 The Fan from 2011 to 2012.

Klatt is a guest commentator weekly on The Next Round, a live and on-demand streaming broadcast based in Birmingham, Alabama, hosted by Jim Dunaway, Ryan Brown, and Lance Taylor.

The show opens with the official Joel Klatt Theme Song, performed by TC Fleming, formerly of KTCK.

[18] Klatt has appeared as an interview guest on The Hardline, The Petros and Money Show, and The Herd with Colin Cowherd.