Denver; Kansas City, Missouri; Las Vegas; Nashville, Tennessee; and a joint bid between Cleveland and Canton, Ohio—home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame—are the finalists to host the 2019 or 2020 NFL draft.
Adam Schefter of ESPN provided the update Thursday.
Oakland Raiders president Marc Badain expressed optimism in November about Las Vegas' ability to attract high-end NFL events like the draft and Super Bowl with the organization set to move to the city in the coming years, per Richard N. Velotta of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
"We've had productive dialogue with the NFL, we had meetings a few weeks ago, and they laid out the process for the NFL draft as well as future Super Bowls.