After a dozen picks in the 2024 NFL Draft, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the massive crowd packed into Campus Martius in Downtown Detroit. He had an important message for the ravenous fans.
Detroit had shattered the NFL Draft attendance record with an estimated 275,000 people attending the event on Thursday night. To give you a sense of just how ridiculous this number is, the NFL record for draft attendance FOR THE ENTIRE WEEKEND was 200,000 before Nashville shattered that with 600,000 for the weekend in 2019. But in Nashville, they only had an estimated 200,000 for the opening night of the draft.