Yeagermeister;2042662 said:
Who is doing there broadcast this year? Keyshawn was brutal last year.
From an ESPN news release .....
Chris Berman and Mel Kiper, Jr., will lead a team of analysts and reporters for ESPN’s 29th year of covering the NFL Draft April 26-27. ESPN’s 16 hours of live coverage over two days will be supplemented by Draft-related content on multiple ESPN platforms throughout the weekend, including ESPN Radio, ESPNEWS and ESPN.com.
Berman and Kiper, working their 28th and 25th NFL Drafts for ESPN, respectively, will be teamed with analysts Keyshawn Johnson and Steve Young, and NFL insider Chris Mortensen at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Day 1. Monday Night Football’s Mike Tirico and Ron Jaworski will also be joined by College GameDay’s Kirk Herbstreit to provide on-site commentary, while reporter Suzy Kolber will conduct “green room” interviews with all the top prospects invited to the Draft.
SportsCenter Special: On the Clock at 11 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 26, will kickoff ESPN’s comprehensive coverage. The four-hour program will include NFL Live’s Trey Wingo with NFL analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Merril Hoge and Tom Jackson, ESPN Scouts Inc. director of college scouting Todd McShay, and ESPN.com’s Michael Smith in Bristol, Conn., as well as reporters around the league, before the focus shifts to Radio City Music Hall when the NFL Draft telecast will begin at its new time of 3 p.m.
ESPN’s Day 1 coverage will last until the conclusion of round 2. ESPN will televise all eight hours on Sunday (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) with Wingo hosting from New York for the first time with Carter, Jaworski, Kiper and Mortensen. In Bristol, Around the Horn’s Tony Reali will moderate a panel of NFL writers -- Jeffri Chadiha and Smith (ESPN.com), Charean Williams (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram) and Steve Wyche (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – as they discuss and debate winners and losers and the Draft’s biggest stories.
What’s New in 2008:
Four-hour SportsCenter Special: On the Clock (Saturday, 11 a.m.);
New NFL Draft start time (3 p.m.);
College GameDay‘s Kirk Herbstreit with Tirico and Jaworski at Radio City Music Hall on Day 1;
NFL Live’s Trey Wingo to host from Radio City Music Hall on Day 2;
New analyst Cris Carter to contribute both days, including from Radio City on Day 2;
Around the Horn’s Tony Reali to moderate panel of NFL experts -- Jeffri Chadiha, Michael Smith, Charean Williams and Steve Wyche -- on Day 2.
Colin Cowherd of The Herd will host ESPN Radio’s NFL Draft coverage from Radio City with ESPN.com NFL senior writer John Clayton. ESPN Radio’s eight hours of Day 1 coverage will start at 10 a.m. with the announcement of picks starting at 3 p.m., as well as interviews with top players and other newsmakers. On Sunday, Clayton will provide updates from Radio City during ESPN Radio’s four hours of coverage, beginning at 10 a.m.
ESPNEWS will supplement its traditional multi-sport news coverage with eight hours of “On the Clock” team-by-team previews, beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday, April 26. Stan Verrett and Mike Hill will split hosting duties, supported by McShay and director of NFL scouting Jeremy Green of ESPN Scouts Inc., ESPN.com analysts Pat Forde and Chadiha, NFL analysts Qadry Ismail and Floyd Reese, and college analyst Bob Davie. ESPNEWS will analyze one NFL division per hour -- 10 minutes "On the Clock" per team concluding with the Miami Dolphins, who hold the No. 1 overall pick, at 2:45 p.m.
Once the Draft begins on ESPN at 3 p.m., ESPNEWS, along with its coverage of other sports news of the day, will provide analysis and reactions to picks with host Rece Davis, McShay, NFL analysts Hoge and Marcellus Wiley, and college football analyst Robert Smith, as well as interviews with coaches, general managers and players. On Day 2, Draft-related content on ESPNEWS kicks off at 8 a.m. -- two hours before the start of round 3 -- and will continue throughout the day.
ESPN’s 2008 NFL Draft Lineup:
ESPN – Day 1:
Radio City Music Hall in New York City --
Set #1: Chris Berman, Keyshawn Johnson, Mel Kiper Jr., Steve Young and Chris Mortensen
Set #2: Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Kirk Herbstreit
Reporter: Suzy Kolber
Bristol, Conn.: SportsCenter Special: On the Clock (11 a.m. – 3 p.m.) --
Trey Wingo, Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Merril Hoge, Todd McShay and Michael Smith.
NFL Team Sites --
Hank Goldberg (at Miami Dolphins), Rachel Nichols (Atlanta Falcons), Sal Paolantonio (New York Giants) and Ed Werder (Dallas Cowboys).
ESPN – Day 2:
Radio City Music Hall: Wingo, Kiper, Carter, Jaworski and Mortensen
Bristol: Tony Reali, Jeffri Chadiha, Smith, Charean Williams and Steve Wyche
ESPN Radio:
Colin Cowherd will host Day 1 coverage from Radio City Music Hall with ESPN.com NFL senior writer John Clayton, who will also provide updates from site on Day 2.
ESPNEWS (Bristol, Conn.) – Day 1:
Stan Verrett and Mike Hill will host “On the Clock” previews with McShay, Jeremy Green, Pat Forde, Chadiha, Qadry Ismail, Floyd Reese and Bob Davie beginning at 7 a.m.
Rece Davis will host Draft-related segments featuring McShay, Hoge, Marcellus Wiley and Robert Smith beginning at 3 p.m.
ESPN.com:
ESPN.com will cover the Draft with an unprecedented number of writers and bloggers, including Matt Mosley (New York), Pat Yasinskas (Tampa), Mike Sando (Seattle), James Walker (Baltimore), Bill Williamson (location TBD) and Chadiha (New York), in addition to Clayton and Len Pasquarelli at Radio City Music Hall. The Scouts Inc. team of Green, McShay, Keith Kidd, Steve Muench and Kevin Weidl will also provide pick-by-pick analysis. Kiper will provide final draft grades on Sunday night.
