Pittsburgh breaks NFL Draft attendance record with crowd of 805,000 fans

The NFL Draft in Pittsburgh set a new attendance record of 805,000 over three days, the league announced, breaking the previous record of 775,000 fans set in Detroit in 2024.The NFL has taken the draft on the road since 2015 to various league cities, where it has become a marquee event.“None of us would be able to say that we projected this,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said before this year’s draft began. “I will say, though, we felt strongly that taking it to the fans, taking it to these communities, that something magical would happen. But to see this kind of reaction, people have been talking about this in Pittsburgh for almost a year.”Advertisement