Ratings for the 2017 NFL draft were up over last year.
ESPN averaged 3.1 million viewers over the entire 15 hours of the draft, spread over three days and on both ESPN and ESPN2. For NFL Network, which averaged 1.5 million viewers, it was the most-viewed draft ever.
For the first round, ESPN averaged 6.9 million viewers with an additional 2.5 million on the NFL Network.
The NFL hosted this year's draft in Philadelphia after last year's in Chicago.
