{"id":174498,"date":"2026-04-24T03:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:22:26","slug":"pittsburgh-breaks-first-round-draft-record-with-massive-north-shore-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174498\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh breaks first-round Draft record with massive North Shore crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands attend first day of NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, setting record<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WTAE logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 11:12 PM EDT Apr 23, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHundreds of thousands of people showed up to the Steel City, breaking a first round Draft Day record.NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced 320,000 people attended the first day of the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. The massive crowd was seen from Sky 4 as a sea of fans that stretched well back from the draft stage outside Acrisure Stadium.The NFL Draft theater on Pittsburgh&#8217;s North Shore reached capacity before the show began, with a sign directing arriving fans on the North Shore to enter the stadium to watch the show.A sign directed fans still arriving on the North Shore to enter the stadium to watch the show.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people showed up to the Steel City, breaking a first round Draft Day record.<\/p>\n<p>NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced 320,000 people attended the first day of the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>The massive crowd was seen from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/nfl-draft-theater-capacity-pittsburgh-north-shore\/71114027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sky 4 as a sea of fans that stretched well back from the draft stage outside Acrisure Stadium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NFL Draft theater on Pittsburgh&#8217;s North Shore reached capacity before the show began, with a sign directing arriving fans on the North Shore to enter the stadium to watch the show.<\/p>\n<p>A sign directed fans still arriving on the North Shore to enter the stadium to watch the show.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"NFL Draft theater at capacity\" title=\"NFL Draft theater at capacity\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4b901436-4909-4294-aea9-a28505969ec8.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands attend first day of NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, setting record Updated: 11:12 PM EDT Apr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78259,8206,23709,13555,78260,78261,70449,78262,11492,19779,78263,3537,14131,73,75,74,1833,78264,64873,23115,4689,10373],"class_list":{"0":"post-174498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-78259","9":"tag-acrisure-stadium","10":"tag-capacity","11":"tag-crowd","12":"tag-draft-day-record","13":"tag-draft-stage","14":"tag-draft-theater","15":"tag-fan-turnout","16":"tag-fans","17":"tag-first-round","18":"tag-live-event","19":"tag-nfl-draft","20":"tag-north-shore","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","23":"tag-pittsburgh-news","24":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","25":"tag-record-crowd","26":"tag-roger-goodell","27":"tag-sky-4","28":"tag-stadium","29":"tag-steel-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}