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The rivalry between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers is burning Red Hot, even in high season.
Lions President Rod Wood made sure to throw some lit on the fire on Tuesday as he talked about the NFL draft that took place in Green Bay after the event in Detroit last year. Thousands of people are expected to take part in the event again this year in Wisconsin.
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Flags promoting the NFL draft on April 19, 2025, at Leicht Memorial Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via imagn images)
Wood took a shot at Packers while talking at an annual draft lunch in Detroit.
“Trying to get the NFL to consider bringing it back (to Detroit) because I don’t think they’ll ever fill it,” Wood said via Detroit Free Press. “There is no way Green Bay comes close. They are done in second or, as I said to Brad (Galli), they finished with the third, as they did last year.”
The draft had 775,000 people present over three days, when he was originally made in 2019 when it was held in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Vince Lombardi statue overlooks the NFL draft as construction herds work to end the structure on April 21, 2025 in Green Bay. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via imagn images)
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A sign for Packers Everywhere Draft Haus, which will be open during the NFL draft, is depicted on the Lambeau Field parking ground on April 19, 2025 in Green Bay. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via imagn images)
Green Bay, the smallest market in the NFL, is reportedly expected to have about 250,000 entered the city for the event.
NFL Draft is the first big event to kick off the new season. Despite the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and others who just advertise a list of team choices, fans flock to it every year, and it draws a massive audience on TV.
A wall of team helmets appears in the gallery tent of the NFL Draft Campus in Green Bay Packers’ Titletown District on April 21, 2025 in Aswaubenon, Wisconsin. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via imagn images)
Lions, who won NFC North last season, has the 28th choice of the first round. Packers have the 23rd.
