Broncos Bidding to Host 2019 NFL Draft: Latest Details, Comments, Reaction

With the 2016 NFL draft quickly approaching, the Denver Broncos are set to bid for a chance to host the 2019 edition of the event at the start of the league's 100th season. 

According to Mike Klis of KUSA, the city of Denver is looking toward 2019 since scheduling conflicts in 2017 and 2018 made it impossible to hold the event.

The draft would likely be held at the Bellco Theater inside the Colorado Convention Center, per Klis. Denver Sports Commission executive director Matthew Payne is of the belief that Denver would make a great host city for one of the NFL's biggest spectacles:

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We realize the draft is one of the premier events of the year, and Denver is great at hosting high-profile events. We feel that Denver would make a perfect host. We have sophisticated football fans in Denver and confident that the city and the region would come out in big numbers. There is still a lot of work to do on this, but we feel that when we can get the NFL to come in for a site inspection that we can tell the right story and win the right to be host.

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The NFL draft will be held in Chicago for the second consecutive year in 2016 after a 50-year run in New York City. It has never taken place in Denver previously.

The NHL draft has long moved from city to city with each passing year, and the NFL draft could soon take a similar shape due to its new bidding process.

It isn't yet known if the draft will remain in Chicago for 2017 and 2018, but the Windy City will have some competition in 2019.

The city of Denver is at the pinnacle of the NFL currently after the Broncos' Super Bowl 50 triumph, and bringing the draft out west would further establish Denver as one of the premier NFL locales in the United States.

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