The NFL agreed. The praise for Green Bay, including a post from Brian McCarthy, NFL vice president of communications, was abundant. "Green Bay has been so good, so good to the @NFL this week. Amazing crowd sticking around 223 picks in," he wrote.

Bringing the NFL draft to the league’s smallest market was supposed to mean a smaller crowd. Green Bay Packers fans had other ideas.

Green Bay shattered all attendance projections as the host of the 2025 draft with over 600,000 people attending the historic event across the last three days. The total was announced prior to Brad Paisley’s concert in the Draft Theater at the conclusion of the draft on April 26.