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===NFL Network, ABC, and ESPN (2019–present)=== The Fox/NFL Network simulcast would only last one year, as ABC picked up the broadcast television rights for all 3 days of the draft in 2019. ABC's coverage would have the ''[[College GameDay (football)|College GameDay]]'' crew on days 1 and 2, with ''[[Good Morning America]]'' anchor [[Robin Roberts (newscaster)|Robin Roberts]], joined by [[2018 NFL season|2018 NFL MVP]] and [[Kansas City Chiefs]] quarterback [[Patrick Mahomes]], and [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award winner]] [[Taylor Swift]], co-hosting with ''GameDay'' host [[Rece Davis]] on day 1. Also, on day 1, Swift announced her new single "[[Me! (Taylor Swift song)|ME!]]", featuring [[Panic! at the Disco]]'s [[Brendon Urie]], being released at midnight ET, with the music video debuting on [[YouTube]] at the same time. Day 3 featured the ESPN crew of [[Trey Wingo]], NFL insiders [[Louis Riddick]], and draft experts [[Todd McShay]] and [[Mel Kiper Jr.]], hosting ABC's coverage, which was a simulcast of ESPN's coverage. For the [[2020 NFL draft]], which was supposed to be in Las Vegas but was moved to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NFL Network decided to simulcast ESPN's coverage of all 3 days. Personalities from NFL Network like: draft guru [[Daniel Jeremiah]], Hall of Fame QB [[Kurt Warner]], and Hall of Fame WR [[Michael Irvin]] joined ESPN personnel on all 3 days. ABC continued to carry a feed with the ''College GameDay'' crew for the first two days of the draft. Majority of the analysts joined remotely from their homes with Trey Wingo, [[Rece Davis]], [[Jesse Palmer]], and [[Maria Taylor (sportscaster)|Maria Taylor]] working from ESPN's Bristol, CT studios. Todd McShay was to also participate in the draft, but was unable to due to him testing positive for COVID. [[2021 NFL draft|2021]] saw a return to normal as after a one-year hiatus, NFL Network returned to producing their own coverage of the draft. ESPN and ABC continued to carry separate feeds, one with all the "X's and O's" on ESPN, and the other with the ''College GameDay'' crew on ABC. After Wingo left ESPN in 2020, [[Mike Greenberg]], host of ''[[Get Up (TV program)|Get Up!]]'', took over as ESPN's host for the first two nights, while Davis, who continued as ABC's host, hosted ESPN's coverage of Day 3, which was also simulcast on ABC. [[2022 NFL draft|2022]] saw the draft head to Las Vegas after a two-year wait. NFL Network saw no personnel changes, but ESPN and ABC took a few hits. ESPN announced that insider [[Adam Schefter]] would miss the draft to attend his son's college graduation, and Mel Kiper Jr. would participate virtually because of his COVID-19 vaccination status. Kirk Herbstreit meanwhile, announced himself that he would be dropping out of ABC's draft coverage due to blood clots.
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