Two faces very acquainted to N.F.L. draft viewers is not going to attend this yr’s occasion.
Mel Kiper Jr., the longtime ESPN draft analyst, said earlier this month that he is not going to journey to Las Vegas as a result of he’s unvaccinated towards the coronavirus. As an alternative, he’ll broadcast dwell from his residence studio in Maryland. Kiper has appeared on ESPN’s draft protection since 1984.
“I utterly help everybody figuring out what’s greatest for his or her particular person circumstance and acknowledge the worth of vaccines,” he wrote. “Merely put, my Covid vaccination resolution may be very particular to my very own private medical historical past.”
Kirk Herbstreit, who has commented on faculty soccer for ESPN since 1996, is not going to take part in draft protection as he treats a blood clot. “I really feel good, however out of an abundance of warning I’m simply going to take a step again from this yr’s draft protection,” he mentioned in a video posted to Twitter.
“I like the draft, I like watching the gamers, their tales, the protection of it, watching the households, the feelings that include it, I’m simply unhappy I will be unable to be on the market,” he continued. “I will probably be watching like everyone else.”
