Curious what people think about this.

The NFL Draft has become one of the most watched events in all of sports and is incredibly popular.

I fully expect most to agree and want the time limit shorted, since most people are in the mode of speeding everything up for the sake of speeding it up. But why? What is the importance of speeding the NFL draft up? Why would this even be a consideration?

This is an even that is constantly growing in popularity, I can't understand why Goodell would want to mess with it.

I agree with it, it takes too damn long, especially the first round. Your right, it's becoming more and more popular, and will continue to do so if you didn't have a 6 hr 1st round. 10 minutes a pick in rounds 1 & 2 and 5 minutes after that is plenty IMO.

With all the preparation for the draft that these teams do, there is very little reason they even need 10 minutes per pick, except to work out trades. I suspect they would figure out a way to do that no matter what, so i say 10 would be the absolute maximum for the first round with something like 7 or 8 for the second.

To answer Mike's question, it is to move it to Prime time. If you shorten the rounds, it will be the predecessor to moving the draft to a prime time slot, rather than early saturday...hoping to attract even more viewers and ratings.

I also like the idea, 10min in first round, 5mins 2nd and down to 3-2 min all rounds after that. Keeps the draft flowing.

Yeah, I know it is to move it to prime time, I just don't want to see it changed.

I like getting up Saturday Morning, listening to pre-draft shows, and then in between draft picks, hearing reports/breakdowns on the players.

To me, it works great, no reason to change it. It already draws a bigger audience than any other sporting event, and being covered by two tv networks.

And I especially don't understand why, just because we get a new commissioner, that things have to change.

Shorten the draft, play games in other countries, exted the season to 17 games and further screw up the record books. Then once we start playing more games in other countries, we get teams in other countries, expand the NFL again, and further water down the competition.

I am quickly getting tired of this commissioner.

Me thinks Mike doesn't like change.

I am all for change, I am not for someone that tries to come in and reinvent the wheel.

Hell, the Vikings miss picks when they have 15 minutes, just imagine shrinking it even more.

Sounds like a change adverse person to me

Maybe giving them less time to think would prevent stomach turning pics like Ted Ginn to the Dolphins