NFL draft could be coming to Las Vegas, and Raiders owner Mark Davis would welcome it with open arms
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While public events were already canceled, the NFL draft will not have a presence in Las Vegas this year, a source confirmed to the Review-Journal.
The global pandemic that is the coronavirus has gripped Southern Nevada in a most relentless manner, its harsh realities being felt from one side of town to the next.
Local leaders won’t speculate on a future NFL draft here, but what’s known for sure is that thousands of people and millions of dollars won’t be coming in April.
The NFL has canceled plans to hold its draft in Las Vegas this year because of concerns over the spread of coronavirus.
Sometimes the quarterbacks selected in the later rounds of the NFL draft may become the best of the bunch.
The chances that the draft in Las Vegas will be staged as originally palnned are the same of those of local pharmacies having a surplus of hand sanitizer.
Las Vegas owner Mark Days says of the upcoming NFL Draft: “I guarantee that the league and the leaders here will come up with the right plan. There is a dialogue between everybody in the public sphere. You have to have that.”
The first case of coronavirus in Southern Nevada was confirmed Thursday, calling into question what major events might be canceled or postponed across Las Vegas.
The Raiders have two picks in the first round during the 2020 NFL Draft and will have options to address their wideout needs.