Here's what to expect from the virtual 2020 NFL Draft.
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00:00 Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, lives in Bronxville, New York, he will actually be
00:04 announcing the picks as he normally does in a very different way from his basement. So they're
00:10 gonna have a camera set up in his basement, they'll have an IT person with him, make sure
00:14 everything's up and running there. The hub of the draft broadcast will be in Bristol, Connecticut,
00:18 ESPN and NFL Network are going to be kind of co anchoring the broadcast from there.
00:23 And then the 32 teams are each going to have their own setups where you know, they have the normal
00:29 gamut of people that are going to be beaming into the decision makers. And the NFL is allowing each
00:34 team to designate one decision maker, that decision makers allowed to have an IT person with them.
00:39 And then they're allowing for three people to be in a Microsoft team meeting with the league office.
00:45 So it's 32 times 396 team personnel are going to be part of that meeting, in which they're going
00:50 to relay picks and trades and those sorts of things to the commissioner so he can announce them. And so
00:56 that's going to be backed up with a conference call. You're also going to have over 50 players
01:00 that have been sent kits by the league. So those people are going to be broadcasting from home.
01:05 And so you're going to be able to see Joe Burrow, the quarterback from LSU likely to go first
01:10 overall chase young, the defensive end from Ohio State likely to go second overall, guys like that
01:16 are going to be involved in the broadcast as well. And so they're trying to recreate a lot of the
01:19 elements that you'd normally have as part of the broadcast and recreate the functional part of the
01:26 the draft through all the technology that's available to all of us now.