The NFL draft has a new attendance record after more than 775,000 fans flooded downtown Detroit for the three-day event. Michigan Gov.

Detroit set an NFL record for attendance at the NFL Draft this weekend. 775,000 people attended the 2024 NFL Draft, which is a new record. It was poised to be broken after over 275,000 fans attended the first round on Thursday night,

If you were in Detroit for the 2024 NFL draft weekend, you were definitely not alone. After a Thursday night that saw over 275,000 fans in downtown Detroit to experience the first round, the enthusiastic crowd did not diminish.

The previous record had been set in 2019 when the draft drew 600,000 to Nashville for the three-day NFL event.

NFL Draft set an attendance record. The league says nearly three quarters of a million people attended the festivities.

The NFL draft continued Friday with the second and third rounds and hundreds of thousands of fans watched the big event in Detroit.

When it was announced in April 2022 that Detroit would host the 2024 NFL Draft, it came with a challenge from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Just so you know, Nashville hosted a few years ago and had 600,

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Saturday that the Draft had broken the NFL's all-time attendance record with more than 700,000 fans during an appearance to announced a fourth-round pick for the Detroit Lions.

Detroit broke the all-time NFL Draft attendance record less than two hours into the event's third and final day, drawing 700,000 people downtown over three days and shattering the record set by in Nashville in 2019.