at least when it comes to viewership and attendance numbers, was a massive success. The league and ESPN announced on Tuesday that the NFL Draft was the second most-watched draft in history.

Coverage of Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday averaged 7.5 million viewers — the second most-watched Day 2 on record and up 48 percent versus 2024. Advertisement The 2020 NFL Draft holds the current ...

Unsurprisingly, the Shedeur Sanders draft saga, which extended into the event’s final day, resulted in the most-watched Day 3 in NFL Draft history ... 4.3 million viewers across ABC, ESPN ...

Notably, the 40% year-over-year rise for the second round was much larger than the 11% year-over-year rise for the first round (which was the most-viewed outside of the unique 2020 draft).

An estimated 7.3 million people tuned into Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft on April 25, according to the league. It was the second-most-watched Day 2 on record, and viewership was up 40% from Day 2 in ...

The NFL draft has a new attendance ... of fans and show 50-plus million viewers the new-look city. Motown beat Music City's three-day attendance record of 600,000 set in 2019, when fans filled ...

That was up 12 percent from 2022. The expectation among those who study viewership is that this NFL Draft will be among the most-watched in history, especially for the opening round. The top of ...

DETROIT — The NFL draft has a new attendance ... of fans and show 50-plus million viewers the new-look city. Motown beat Music City’s three-day attendance record of 600,000 set in 2019 ...