NFL draft in Nashville sets record with 600K attendees
The NFL's traveling draft roadshow set a new attendance record with the 2019 installment.
The three-day event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., brought out an estimated 600,000 attendees, NFL vice president of communications Brian McCarthy said, according to Matthew Leimkuehler of the Tennessean.
New record three-day total of more than a half million fans for #NFLDraft in Nashville. Thank you fans, volunteers, the City and @visitmusiccity
— Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) April 27, 2019
Nashville, you did us proud. What an opening night. #NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/76dao8u2DQ
— Gil Brandt (@Gil_Brandt) April 26, 2019
Crowds of 200,000 people attended the first two days of the event, according to organizers.
The draft was previously held in New York from 1965 to 2014 before it moved to Chicago in 2015 and 2016, Philadelphia in 2017, and Dallas in 2018.
Las Vegas, the future home of the Oakland Raiders, will host the draft in 2020.