Dan Patrick will not be back as the lead host on NBC’s primetime pregame show, “Football Night in America.”

Patrick told The Post he recently made the decision. He said that NBC offered him a new, five-year-deal in December, but, at 61, he said he did not want to make a commitment.

“I didn’t want to do it and not love doing it,” Patrick said.

Patrick does want to continue his radio show and is on the verge of renewing with AT&T and DirecTV for the next three years, he said.

Patrick had been doing NBC’s pregame for the last nine years and co-hosted the Super Bowl four times.

His contract with NBC Sports Network is a licensing agreement for the simulcast of his radio show. It still could continue even though he will not be on Sunday night.

Mike Tirico is the leading candidate to be the main host on the pregame.

“As always, changes to our NFL on-air team, if any, will be announced sometime closer to the start of the 2018 season,” NBC Sports said in a statement.

Tirico has been a popular figure this NFL offseason. In Fox’s pursuit of Peyton Manning for “Thursday Night Football,” the idea of borrowing Tirico to call the primetime games on a rival network has been broached.

Sources have told The Post that NBC has been reluctant to help another network that is competing against its own entertainment division on Thursday. Manning has yet to make a decision, as sources said two “soft deadlines” have passed.

Tirico also could just call the non-Fox Thursday night games on NFL Network.

On fall weekends, Tirico will call NBC’s Notre Dame games as the lead play-by-player on Saturdays before taking the NFL helm on Sunday nights. Tirico is still the heir to Al Michaels on play-by-play, but Michaels, 73, has shown no signs that he plans to retire anytime soon.

It is possible NBC could add a sidekick role for Tirico, similar to when Chris Berman used to have another anchor do some of the highlights on ESPN’s old “NFL Primetime” broadcasts. Liam McHugh would be a potential candidate for such a role.

If Tirico becomes the main host, it would further establish him as the network’s foremost presenter, with Bob Costas basically retired from NBC with an emeritus role.

Tirico already had taken over for Costas on the NFL, but the role, while out front at the site of each week’s game, was limited in terms of its scope.

Now, if the move with Patrick occurs, it would be Tirico who would lead the show. Patrick worked with his analysts, Rodney Harrison and Tony Dungy, in NBC’s Stamford studios. It is unclear where Tirico would be located if he is, in fact, the main host.

As for Patrick, with his contract up, his future at the network is up in the air. Though even if NBC goes through with not renewing him on Sundays, it seems plausible his licensing agreement with NBC Sports Network to simulcast his radio show could continue. Patrick was not a part of NBC’s Olympic coverage in PyeongChang in February after being one of the main hosts during previous recent Games.