{"id":231355,"date":"2026-04-02T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:21:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-announce-event-lineup-for-2026-nfl-draft-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231355\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys announce event lineup for 2026 NFL draft party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time to find out what the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> will do in the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the team officially announced its lineup of festivities for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/12\/18\/dallas-cowboys-nfl-draft-preview-picks-mock-draft-first-rounders\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the event that will be held from April 23-25.<\/a> The Cowboys are following their recent tradition of hosting their draft festivities at The Star in Frisco.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s lineup of activities includes appearances from current and former players, performances from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, live music and more.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys will be presenting live coverage of the draft at their headquarters. Night one of the event will be present inside the Ford Center at The Star starting at 6 p.m. April 23. The second and third rounds will be presented at 6 p.m. on April 24 outside of the Ford Center on the\u00a0Tostitos Championship Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Day three of the\u00a0event begins at 8 a.m. on April 25 with the team&#8217;s annual Draft Day 5K.\u00a0According to the Cowboys, the draft party&#8217;s Saturday itinerary also includes a &#8220;Tails &amp; Touchdowns: Draft Edition&#8221; event where attendees can enjoy the festivities with their dogs. A &#8220;Doggie Draft&#8221; adoption zone will be included in that event, where guests can meet adoptable dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s almost time to find out what the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys will do in the 2026 NFL draft. On Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88775,88229,89124,89494],"class_list":{"0":"post-231355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-tp-jerry-jones","12":"tag-tp-nfl","13":"tag-tp-nfl-draft","14":"tag-tp-the-star-in-frisco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}