{"id":203503,"date":"2025-04-24T21:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/2025-nfl-draft-1st-round-how-to-watch-and-open-thread\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:57:36","slug":"2025-nfl-draft-1st-round-how-to-watch-and-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=203503","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL Draft 1st Round: How to Watch and Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"Rt1TyU\">The day has finally arrived. With the NFL draft kicking off, we begin the most ballyhooed of offseason football events, and we also mark the end of spring football and the true beginning of the summer doldrums of the offseason. After the Draft, there will be nothing else football related until fall camp. <\/p>\n<p id=\"AnrPtt\">The 1st round of the Draft will begin tonight at 7:00 p.m. central time. As has been the case the last few years, it will be aired on ESPN, ABC, and NFL Network (as well as ESPN Deportes for Spanish). Each channel has a separate commenting team, and tends to focus on different types of stories. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"hL3MjB\">ESPN<\/h3>\n<p id=\"ws6fZC\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Mike Greenberg<\/p>\n<p id=\"MB394F\"><strong>Analysts:<\/strong> Mel Kiper Jr., Booger McFarland, Louis Riddick<\/p>\n<p id=\"CJDIMz\"><strong>Reporter\/News:<\/strong> Adam Schefter<\/p>\n<p id=\"6NA6zn\"><strong>Stage Reporter:<\/strong> Molly McGrath<\/p>\n<p id=\"LIiOII\">The main channel has Mel Kiper with his traditional show, and they tend to spend more time talking about the NFL teams, league intrigue, and the player fits after they\u2019ve been drafted. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"gr7J4Y\">ABC<\/h3>\n<p id=\"xv98QR\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Rece Davis<\/p>\n<p id=\"NrUkli\"><strong>Analysts:<\/strong> Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Nick Saban<\/p>\n<p id=\"Z0Y834\"><strong>Contributors:<\/strong> Field Yates, Laura Rutledge, Pete Thamel<\/p>\n<p id=\"a7V93H\">ABC, on the other hand, is more college focused. They\u2019ll go deep into the backstories of all the players and spend less time talking about the NFL as a whole. Rece Davis is a phenomenal host, and Herbie, along with Nick Saban and Desmond Howard, will bring plenty of entertainment. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"xmejmy\">NFL Network<\/h3>\n<p id=\"xGPKvj\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Rich Eisen<\/p>\n<p id=\"NtQ5PE\"><strong>Main Desk Analysts:<\/strong> Daniel Jeremiah, Charles Davis, Joel Klatt<\/p>\n<p id=\"6OcOXX\"><strong>Additional Analysts:<\/strong> Kurt Warner<\/p>\n<p id=\"dVxQt7\"><strong>Insider News:<\/strong> Ian Rapoport<\/p>\n<p id=\"sOuD30\"><strong>Stage Reporter:<\/strong> Jamie Erdahl<\/p>\n<p id=\"KkpkZY\">The NFL Network is more of the \u201cnerd\u201d version of watching the draft. Daniel Jeremiah has long been one of the better film studiers in the business, and Rich Eisen is a fun host that keeps things less melodramatic than the ESPN and ABC channels. Plus Jamie Erdahl is a former SEC on CBS standout, so it\u2019s good to see her keep rising up the ranks. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"p-entry-hr\" id=\"kS4Vec\"\/>\n<p id=\"bkOJhC\">Alabama has three players who have a shot at being drafted in the 1st round tonight, extending the streak to 16 straight years with a 1st round selection. <\/p>\n<p id=\"jBGoyN\"><strong>LB- Jihaad Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"fMac81\">Campbell is the top off-ball linebacker in the draft, unless you count Georgia\u2019s Jalon Walker, who will most likely be an edge rusher. Campbell\u2019s production and impressive athletic measureables to go along with versatility make him one of the top overall players in the draft. Most view him as a top-ten talent, but the lack of position value of a linebacker means he\u2019ll most likely be in the teens. <\/p>\n<p id=\"4TgqL5\"><strong>OG &#8211; Tyler Booker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"85fHHm\">Booker is probably a top-three interior offensive lineman in this draft. He had mostly been predicted to go in the top 15 of the draft, but an extremely poor showing at the Combine has seen his projections dip a bit. He\u2019s most likely and end-of-first-round pick, but he could drop out of the 1st altogether. <\/p>\n<p id=\"udNMWg\"><strong>QB- Jalen Milroe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"nsQ4QY\">Milroe is one of the most polarizing players in this draft. In September of last year, he was getting projections as the #1 overall pick. In January, the sentiment had fallen so far that he looked like a 5th rounder at best. <\/p>\n<p id=\"fjLxh0\">Then over the last month, he\u2019s climbed back up the public opinion tree and has been getting a lot of talk as a possible 1st round selection. Who really knows, but he did get an invite to attend the first round of the draft live, so there\u2019s at least some smoke there. <\/p>\n<p id=\"76AuWo\">Good luck to all three of these great representatives of the University of Alabama, we\u2019re all rooting for you. 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