What is the NFL draft in 2016? I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before and during the draft in and around the Auditorium Theater and Draft Town, located outside Grant Park in Chicago. In the Theater, I mostly stuck to the media area, primarily the upper balcony that became the press area, while I wandered around Draft Town on Friday before the selectioning began, and then on Saturday during picks before the chill and damp convinced me to retreat to the Theater.
Inside the Auditorium Theater
From a media perspective, comments on the venue are inevitable. Everyone I spoke to who covered the draft both places, including the people I spoke to last year, said Radio City Music Hall was a much better venue than the Auditorium Theater for actually covering the draft from a mechanics perspective.