Laura Rutledge is an American reporter and host for ESPN and the SEC Network. She is an American beauty pageant titleholder from St. Petersburg, Florida, who was named Miss Florida 2012.
Rutledge worked for Fox Sports as a sideline reporter, previously covering Fox broadcasts of Tampa Bay Rays games and then San Diego Padres games. She also provided on-field reporting for the Fox College Sports coverage of the NCPA's 2012 National Paintball Championship in Lakeland, Florida. She joined ESPN and the SEC Network in summer 2014.
In 2014, Rutledge hosted the Coors Light PostGame show on Fox College Football and hosted halftime programming for FSN college football games.
Rutledge also hosted Chargers Insider for the San Diego Chargers in 2013 and SD Live. She was the producer and host of SDLive, an original show she started at Fox Sports San Diego.
On May 16, 2017, she was named host of SEC Nation on the SEC Network. On August 17, 2020, she became the host of ESPN's premier NFL show, NFL Live. In August 2025, Rutledge joins the MNF team as a full time sideline reporter alongside Lisa Salters.
