{"id":483527,"date":"2024-05-26T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483527"},"modified":"2024-05-26T08:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:45:01","slug":"washington-d-c-wants-to-welcome-the-2027-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/washington-d-c-wants-to-welcome-the-2027-nfl-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington, D.C., wants to welcome the 2027 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competition is fearless among National Football League cities to welcome the draft, and Washington, D.C. also wants to be part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders and cities officials want to welcome the 2027 NFL draft. If they failed to secure it, they will continue to demand to host it in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still unclear if the US capital would have a chance to host the draft in 2027, but the National Mall is 1 chance. The draft has drawn a lot of people annually since the league turned it into a traveling roadshow almost 10 years ago, and Detroit had over 750,000 tourists for the 3-day event in 2024, securing them the record for the most-attended draft ever.<\/p>\n<p>After decades of holding the draft in the Big Apple, the NFL has turned the draft into a huge event that cities across the USA compete to host in expectations to secure significant tourism revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Next year\u2019s draft will be in Green Bay, and the 2026 draft will be hosted in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Washington, D.C. wants to host the 2027 NFL draft. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WoQYucEhjy\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/WoQYucEhjy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProFootballTalk\/status\/1794467344271745485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition is fearless among National Football League cities to welcome the draft, and Washington, D.C. also wants to be part of the process. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483528,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,18899,20773],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873,18903,20776],"acf":{"announce":"The US capital wants to host the NFL draft in 2027.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483529,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483527\/revisions\/483529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483527"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483527"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}