The NFL put its 2026 draft in the hands of one its most historic teams. So maybe it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise plenty of people showed up.<\/p>\n
The three-day 2026 NFL Draft drew a total of 805,000 fans to Pittsburgh<\/a>\u2019s North Shore. That breaks a record previously held by Detroit<\/a>, which drew more than 700,000 fans in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy posted shortly after the seventh round, which ended with Buffalo\u2019s Red Murdock becoming Mr. Irrelevant<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh fans certainly made their voices heard over the course of the events. They loudly booed NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and all of their rivals\u2019 pickers, though the home team also received some hits back, such as the Philadelphia Eagles swiping Makai Lemon out from under their nose<\/a> and former Baltimore Ravens running back Mark Ingram going full troll<\/a>.<\/p>\n All of that sets the bar for next year\u2019s draft, which will be held on the National Mall in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL put its 2026 draft in the hands of one its most historic teams. So maybe it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78873,4916,78962,1611,5002,78963,4538,73,75,74,1829,78853],"class_list":["post-176546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-attendance-record","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-brian-mccarthy","tag-buffalo","tag-detroit","tag-mark-ingram","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-steelers","tag-the-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176546","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=176546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}