By all accounts, the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay was a rousing success. The NFL’s smallest city came up big for the league’s largest annual event, with hundreds of thousands of fans making the trek for a weekend of good spring weather and loads of NFL Draft excitement.
Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy hyped up the draft weekend experience in an appearance on FOX 11 in Green Bay. An excerpt from the interview shows a clearly proud Murphy boasting about the success of the draft.
After acknowledging that he has a bias for the home city, here’s what Murphy said about the draft weekend experience in Green Bay,
“I’d say the excitement level and the statistics. The smallest city in the league by far, and we had 600,000 people there. It speaks well, I think, for the kind of support we get, particularly from our fans. My guess would be about 90% of the fans there were Packers fans. Great attendance, second most ever behind Detroit, and the TV ratings were phenomenal. The Thursday night, 13.5 (million viewers) was the most ever to watch the draft other than COVID. COVID, you don’t count. Everybody was locked in their homes having to watch TV, there was no other choice. But no, there was obviously an awful lot of interest.”
Murphy is also hopeful the NFL will consider a return to Green Bay for a future draft. The 2026 NFL Draft will be in Pittsburgh, while 2027 is slated for Washington, DC.