About 3.7 million watched the NFL Draft on Fox, compared to 5.3 million on ESPN

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However, Fox and NFL Network, which simulcast the same broadcast, combined to have more viewers than ESPN on the first night of the draft. Yet ESPN retained much of its viewership from last year, despite the addition of Fox as an NFL Draft broadcaster. Meanwhile, ESPN's decision to have a college-centric NFL Draft broadcast on ESPN2 backfired, with only 123,000 tuning in. Combing all the networks, the NFL Draft averaged 11.2 million viewers.