Green Bay, the smallest market in the National Football League, is ready to host one of the league's biggest events — the 2025 NFL Draft — starting Thursday, April 24. Though Thursday is the biggest day — including the draft's first round and all of the pageantry that goes with it — there'll be a lot going on Wednesday at the draft campus around Lambeau Field and throughout Green Bay.

A group of Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey's top deputies are in Green Bay, Wisconsin, this week to observe the 2025 NFL Draft, learning what they can to help make next year's draft in the Steel City the best it can be.