The "red carpet" is ready. The stage is ready. The Draft Haus and a lot more are or will be ready for the 2025 NFL Draft, which opens at noon.
Or as ready as it will get. "We're never really done," said Kelsey Pietrangelo of NFL Events, who said tweaks, refinements and walk-throughs are pretty much continuous.
The NFL got a full taste of Wisconsin weather on the day before it launches the 2025 draft at Lambeau Field in Green Bay: In the morning, it was April, with thunder, lightning and rain, which caused the draft campus to be locked down for an hour.