Come Thursday night, devoted Cleveland Browns fans will anxiously watch what their team does with the coveted No. 1 and No. 12 first-round picks in the NFL Draft.
Come NFL Draft night in 2019, millions of anxious pro football fans around the nation might have their eyes on Canton to see who their teams will pick out of that year’s crop of top college players.
That’s when much of the Johnson Controls Pro Football Hall of Fame Village is scheduled to be finished — ideally in time to host the NFL Draft that year and then in 2020 play a significant role in the league’s 100th anniversary of its founding in Canton.