Rich Eisen does not hide his enthusiasm. Like many of his colleagues at the NFL Network and his competitors at ESPN, Eisen is genuinely excited about the NFL draft being in Chicago this year.
“Even being a native New Yorker, I felt it was also time to see what the draft looks like in another city, and I can’t think of a better one than Chicago to host it,” says Eisen, the host of the NFL Network’s draft coverage and an alum of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. “The Midwest is a football-crazed region.
“When the Super Bowl was in Indianapolis, I was overwhelmed by the number of fans that flocked to the city from states far away just to take part in an NFL event that had never before hit the area.