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When it comes to sports, the television landscape has been pretty barren over the past month, but that changed on Thursday when the 2020 NFL Draft kicked off. We finally had sports to watch, and football fans around the country Boog Powell Jersey were clearly clamoring for that, because after all was said and done, the first round of the draft ended up smashing the record for highest-rated draft of all-time.According to , the average audience during the Round 1 of the draft was 15.6 million, which was a 37 percent increase over the average audience from last year's (11.4 million). More impre sively, the viewership number was a 26 percent increase over the 2014 -- aka, the draft -- which produced an average audience of 12.4 million viewers that stood as the record until Thursday night. The average viewership was tallied based Yusmeiro Petit Jersey on the number of combined viewers from ABC, ESPN and Network, which all televised Mark McGwire Jersey the draft.The viewership number for the draft peaked between 8:45 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET, when the were on the clock. A total of 19.6 million people were watching when Miami decided to use their first first-round pick on .The draft, which was held virtually for the first time in league history, was hosted by NFL commi sioner Roger Goodell, who announced every pick from his basement while getting booed by fans on the internet. Roger Goodell asking for boos on this first virtual You want GIFs? I gottem all. (@IHaveFourBalls) The draft was especially popular in the state of Ohio this year as the top three cities from a viewership standpoint were all in the Buckeye State. Although the had the top pick, which Blake Treinen Jersey they used on , Cincinnati actually didn't rank as the city with the highest viewership numbers. Instead, that honor went to Columbus.Here's a look at the top-five cities that had the highest ratings during the first round of the draft. Chad Pinder Jersey 1. Columbus, Ohio (16.7)2. Cleveland (15.9)3. Cincinnati (15.6)4. Philadelphia (15.1)5. Kansas City (14.3) Round 2 of the draft starts at 7 p.m. ET on the same networks that hosted the record-breaking first round.