Things can change with the flip of a switch, but for now, the city of Cleveland is still planning on hosting the 2021 NFL Draft, which takes place from April 29-May 1.
Unfortunately, as we’ve said over the past year, if the draft indeed happens, there is no way that Cleveland will have the same type of economic impact they had hoped for when they were first awarded the draft. For example — in 2019, Nashville, Tennessee generated $132.8 million in direct spending for hosting the draft, with hundreds of thousands of attendees. Unless the pandemic drastically improves from now to the end of April, that big of a turnout doesn’t seem possible.