Fox Sports 1 has largely made a name for itself by giving shouting platforms to infamous sports pundits (see: Skip Bayless, Jason Whitlock and Colin Cowherd). But the network has bred a bona fide rising star: Katie Nolan, who won an Emmy last year for her late-night show “Garbage Time.”

And it might be about to lose her.

In February, FS1 ended her show while promising to feature the 30-year-old Nolan more prominently on the channel. In a statement to Sporting News, Fox Sports executive Charlie Dixon said that the network “could not be more excited about Katie Nolan’s future” and that they “look forward to further developing her role at FS1.” Another source said her TV exposure on FS1 would increase “five-fold.”

Yet since “Garbage Time” ended, Nolan has scarcely been seen on the air. Apart from covering a segment on SXSW, Nolan has been absent from FS1, and neither she nor the network has announced any sort of plan for the future. Her only major media exposure was a Twitter beef with fellow Fox employee Sean Hannity, whom she called a “literal f—ing moron.”

All of this raises the question: Could Nolan’s media silence be part of her plan to jump ship?

ESPN’s interest in Nolan was made public back in February, just days after FS1 canceled “Garbage Time.” Nolan reportedly met with several ESPN executives — including president John Skipper — but also Erik Rydholm, the man behind popular ESPN shows “Around the Horn,” “Pardon the Interruption” and “Highly Questionable.”

Meanwhile, the person who brought her to FS1 — Jamie Horowitz — was canned last week amid a sexual harassment investigation. He reportedly was set to meet with her before the abrupt firing.

On Friday, sports media reporter Jim Miller, who literally wrote the book on ESPN, wondered aloud not necessarily if ESPN would poach her, but when it could.

Neither Nolan, Fox nor ESPN has commented, but Nolan recently fired off a pair of cryptic tweets that added more intrigue. First in May, she tweeted that she misses working. Then on Friday, less than an hour after Miller reported the rumblings, she promised a fan that she would “be back soon.”

FS1’s business model has largely consisted of stealing polarizing personalities from ESPN. Nolan is the network’s only major personality who rose from within — and for once, Bristol may be reversing the ESPN-to-FS1 current.