The first round of the NFL Draft saw a slight decline in total viewership from last year, according to SportsTVRatings.
The NFL Draft pulled in just over 11 million viewers on Thursday's first round coverage; ESPN pulled in 4.864M viewers, ABC had 4.539M viewers, and the NFLN had 1.698 viewers. The is down about one hundred thousand viewers from last year's 11.201 million viewers.
Day 2 coverage of the NFL Draft begins Friday night at 7:00PM.