[vincesanity82]

ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that the NFL will reduce round one of the draft from 15 minutes per team to ten minutes, but that the move will not result in a shift (unfortunate typoe narrowly averted) of round one to Friday night.

Per Mort, the draft will start a bit later on Saturday than noon in the East.

Mort also says that round two will drop from ten minutes to seven, and that all other rounds will entail only five minutes, as the practice has been.

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[Lefty Noob]

Good. I like the draft on two days (Friday for Round 1 makes no sense ratings wise), but it's just too long! Glad to see they're shortening it.

[Lefty Noob]

I just heard the official changes. The only thing they did that I don't like is push the start of the draft back from Noon until 3pm. That means, even though it's going to be shorter, it's still going to go too late into the evening. Bad, bad decision.