ESPN.com · Apr 22, 2025
How Green Bay prepared to host the NFL draft
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"With the first pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the NFL selects ... Green Bay, Wisconsin."
-- Roger Goodell, 2023
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- For nearly two years, Debbie Jacques and Erin Peterson wondered what an NFL draft in their front yard would look like. Less than two weeks ago, their wonders turned into amazement when the stage where NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will announce the first selections in the draft on Thursday night rose from the ground.
Jacques and Peterson have views that no one else in the world can claim. Their houses, across the street from each other on the corners of Lombardi Avenue and Oneida Street, sit only 75 yards from the back of the draft stage.
