Updated NFL Draft Television Schedule

The 2015 NFL Draft will be held April 30-May 2 at the Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University in Chicago, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reported Thursday. The first round is Thursday, April 30. The second and third rounds are Friday, May 1, and the draft will conclude on Saturday, May 2 with rounds four through seven.

“We are eager to have fans from all through the midwest experience the NFL Draft,” Goodell said in an announcement reporting the draft area. “We anticipate furnishing a proportional payback to the city of Chicago and working with the city, Choose Chicago, and the Chicago Sports Commission to make a week-long festival of football for our fans. Leader Emanuel and the city of Chicago gave us various approaches to upgrade the Draft experience for our fans and approaching players.”

The Windy City prevailed over Los Angeles, which was the other finalist in the racing to have the class’ marquee occasion one year from now. Different locales the nation over communicated enthusiasm for facilitating the undertaking however couldn’t demolished a solid offer from Chicago that was supported by Emanuel.

“Chicago is satisfied to welcome the 2015 NFL Draft to America’s heartland,” Emanuel said in an announcement. “One year from now, NFL fans from the nation over will go here or tune in as the eventual fate of their group is chosen in Chicago. We anticipate working with the Chicago Bears, the NFL, and our neighborhood accomplices to make this an occasion that highlights our reality class city and reinvests in our groups.”

While the area of the draft was not yet decided for a while, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported prior Thursday that the occasion would be held April 30 through May 2. There had been some thought that the draft will be extended to four days however like my NFL football bets were wrong and a three-day configuration will stay one year from now. Cycle 1 will be hung on April 30 with Rounds 2-3 booked for May 1 and Rounds 4-7 set for May 2.

The new site will stamp the first run through the draft has been held outside of New York City since 1964, when it occurred in Chicago. The draft was held at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan for as far back as nine years yet booking issues constrained the draft to be moved back not long from now and the site was at that point busy in 2015 amid the dates the NFL was considering for the occasion.

The draft itself will be held at Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theater right in the heart of downtown Chicago. An adjacent zone sufficiently huge to hold a fan celebration was a key piece of NFL criteria for submitted offers, and the current year’s occasion will extend outside to beautiful Grant Park and Congress Plaza. There will be an open air fan celebration for each of the three days of the draft.