The 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh didn’t only draw a huge crowd in person, with a record-setting 805,000 people in attendance over the three days, but it also drew a large television audience.<\/p>\n
Round 1 of the NFL Draft was the third most-watched audience ever, averaging 13.2 million viewers on all linear and digital platforms. Those platforms included ESPN, ABC, NFL Network, ESPN Deportes, Disney+, Hulu, the ESPN App, NFL+, YouTube, TikTok and X.<\/p>\n
Round 1 of the 2026 NFL Draft ranked only behind the 2020 NFL Draft and 2025 NFL Draft for viewership.<\/p>\n
The crowd in Pittsburgh for Round 1 was a record-setting 320,000 people.<\/p>\n
In addition, fans were also tuned in to watch The Pat McAfee Show Draft Spectacular, with the Pittsburgh-area native featuring multiple Steelers guests during his broadcast. The show had more than 54 million total minutes consumed across YouTube, TikTok, X and the ESPN App on Day 1, along with 2.2 million total views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh didn’t only draw a huge crowd in person, with a record-setting 805,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50259,17866,70688,564,563,73,75,74,565],"class_list":["post-177896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2026-nfl-draft-in-pittsburgh","tag-draft","tag-draft-central-2026-news","tag-featured","tag-non-sponsored","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sights-and-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177896","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=177896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}