Trump set to announce the 2027 NFL draft will be in Washington — possibly on the National Mall
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Monday an agreement on Washington, DC, to host the draft of the US Football Association 2027, according to a person familiar with the plans NBC News. The goal is for the event to happen in the National Commercial Center.
Axios was First to report the news. The American Football Association refused to comment.
Washington leaders Josh Harris and Washington mayor Morel Boser last year With plans to return to WASchengton A.ND building a new stadium 27 years later in Maryland.
The American Football Association’s draft is an annual group of the best football players in the college by individual teams. In order to be qualified, players must be out of high school for at least three years.
From 1965 to 2014, the draft took place in New York City, but has since been going on to different hosted cities. More than 600,000 people were on the site in Green Bay and Wisconsin last month to attend the three -day later.
Trump, who once owned the United States Football League team and is looking (but failed) to possess the US Football Association concession, followed the 2025 draft from afar. he The owners of the American Football Association criticized social media To not take Colorado Gorstebeck Sanders in the first round.
“What is the mistake in the owners of the American Football Association, are they stupid?” Trump wrote about the social truth. “Dion Sanders was a great university football player, and he was the biggest in the American Football Association. He is also a very good coach, a street and intelligent! So, Shidor, Ibn Qurtubbere, has huge genes, and all prepare for greatness.
Sanders, the son of Fameer Dion Sanders Hall, was expected to be a better choice but fell in the fifth round before Cleveland Brons took him.
