Kalyn Kahler is a senior writer for The Athletic covering the NFL. Prior to joining The Athletic Kalyn worked as a staff writer for Defector and at Sports Illustrated, where she worked her way up from editorial assistant and personal assistant to Peter King.
Kalyn’s work has appeared in multiple publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and Bleacher Report. Kalyn received a notable selection in the 2020 edition of Best American Sportswriting for a piece on how a cow becomes a football and won the Pro Football Writers of America’s enterprise news/feature writing award in 2021 for a series about Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila.
Kalyn holds a degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.