600,000 attend NFL Draft in Green Bay

GREEN BAY, WI—(WGBW)— For the year leading up to the NFL Draft in Green Bay, authorities and organizers were estimating 250 thousand people would attend. Those estimates were blown out of the stadium as the official count reached 600,000 attendees. 

And they said the smallest market couldn’t do it@amfam pic.twitter.com/OfHTqkq4Qu

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) April 27, 2025

NFL Draft Attendance

The NFL confirmed attendance on Thursday, April 24th, was 205,000. Attendance on Friday, the 25th, was a little lower at 175,000. However, more people attended on Saturday than on the first day of the draft, with a total of 220,000 people in attendance. 

Green Bay is the smallest market to host an NFL team. The 600,000 draft attendees in Green Bay tied the numbers seen in Nashville in 2019, but didn’t reach those of the record-breaking attendance records in Detroit in 2024, when 775,000 attended the three days of Draft activities.

Jon Barker, head of Global Events for the NFL, apologized to the community, saying, “I got it completely wrong. I thought 250,000 people would come to this draft over three days. You’ve completely blown that number out the door.”

Public Safety

For those who were keeping track, Green Bay Police arrested one person during the three-day event. The Green Bay Police said one arrest and three ejections happened Friday. On Saturday, GBPD issued only one citation for what police called a low-level offense, and on Sunday, the last day of the NFL Draft, there were no arrests and two ejections. 

The attention of the NFL will now be directed to Pittsburgh, which will host the event in 2026.