Michael Silver joined The San Francisco Chronicle as a sports columnist in 2022. A Bay Area native and graduate of UC Berkeley, Silver is best known for his work at Sports Illustrated and as a columnist at Yahoo! Sports before he joined the NFL Network in 2013, where he earned multiple Emmy nominations for his feature contributions.

Silver has also written for GQ and Rolling Stone, and authored books on Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice (“Rice”) and Kurt Warner (“All Things Possible”) as well as NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman (“Walk On The Wild Side”) and 12-time Olympic swimming medalist Natalie Coughlin (“Golden Girl”). He is also a contributor to Bally Sports national NFL coverage.

Silver is a partner at Backstage Media, which is developing unscripted programming across numerous platforms. He also regularly interviews some of football's most compelling personalities on his podcast, "Open Mike," in conjunction with The Volume, a network featuring shows hosted by Colin Cowherd and Draymond Green.