{"id":552931,"date":"2026-04-27T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:01:09","slug":"nfl-draft-2026-winners-losers-with-fernando-mendoza-ty-simpson-jets-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552931\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Draft 2026: Winners &#038; losers with Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson, Jets &#038; Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You have to hand it to the NFL for making three days of reading names off cards into the second-biggest event on the league calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A record 805,000 fans visited the three-day event in Pittsburgh, with a single-day attendance record of 320,000 for Thursday&#8217;s first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only the Super Bowl is bigger, and even then that&#8217;s only of serious interest to two teams, but all 32 are involved in the draft for one simple reason &#8211; hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The worst teams get the best picks of the college superstars and that gives them hope of a magical turnaround &#8211; and the NFL has managed to market it all as a must-see experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detroit hosted 775,000 fans in 2024, Green Bay had 600,000 last year, and both were topped by Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Washington DC will hope for even more next year and commissioner Roger Goodell revealed cities were lining up to win hosting duties in years to come &#8211; with representatives from 10 on scouting trips in Pittsburgh this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NFL Draft looks set to get even bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You have to hand it to the NFL for making three days of reading names off cards into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-552931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}