{"id":27861,"date":"2025-05-06T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/27861\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T08:09:10","slug":"nfl-announces-host-city-for-2027-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/27861\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL announces host city for 2027 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story update: Denver did not submit a bid to host the 2027 NFL draft, the mayor&#8217;s office told <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Broncos Wire<\/a>. See our original post below.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has announced the host city for the 2027 NFL draft &#8230; and it&#8217;s not Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Denver and Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/04\/29\/nfl-news-broncos-candidate-to-host-2027-draft\/83328594007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">were previously reported<\/a> as the two contenders to host the 2027 draft. The league announced Monday that D.C. has been selected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFL Draft has become a marquee event, uniting fans across the country and around the world,\u201d NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. \u201cWe are excited to bring the 2027 Draft to Washington, D.C., a city rich in history and national pride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the support of President Trump, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" data-autotag=\"a4fb178e-5fd0-440a-8a7b-b87aea742850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Commanders<\/a>, Events DC, and Mayor Bowser, we&#8217;re looking forward to delivering an unforgettable experience as we celebrate the next generation of NFL stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Denver mayor Mike Johnston <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2024\/05\/23\/denver-broncos-candidate-to-host-2027-nfl-draft\/73822067007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">had previously pushed<\/a> to bring a draft to Colorado. After Denver missed out on the 2025, 2026 and 2027 drafts, perhaps the city &#8212; and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" data-autotag=\"80ecb2c2-c4e3-4c9a-8c53-01c0a2da3542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broncos<\/a> &#8212; will now turn attention toward attempting to win a bid for the 2028 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2019\/08\/03\/denver-broncos-famous-fans-celebrities-include-paul-george-amy-adams\/79446413007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story update: Denver did not submit a bid to host the 2027 NFL draft, the mayor&#8217;s office told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[247,265,232,791,427,231,258,2426,1547,78,19,7,3556,248,267,88,6,15,245,537,530,3555,1902,9,266,1548,855,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-27861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-broncos","11":"tag-co","12":"tag-commanders","13":"tag-denver","14":"tag-denver-broncos","15":"tag-denverbroncos","16":"tag-donald","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-draft","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-goodell","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-draft","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-positive","29":"tag-roger","30":"tag-roger-goodell","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-sports-news","33":"tag-trump","34":"tag-washington","35":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114459873369303503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}