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1-on-1 with 2022 NFL Draft host Rece Davis

WISN 12 has been your home for the draft for the last couple of years.

1-on-1 with 2022 NFL Draft host Rece Davis

WISN 12 has been your home for the draft for the last couple of years.

STEPHANIE: THANK YOU SO MU FCHOR TAKING THE TIME. STEPHEN: WE WILL SEE YOU IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES ON THE TELECAST OF THE NFL DRAFT. HOW HAVE YOU SN EETHIS PRODUCTION GROW OVER TIME? >> IT HAS BEEN VARIED. IT STARTEDN I NASHVLEIL, AND IT WAS A SEA OF HUMANITY. IT WAS A FESTIVE ATMOSPHERE AND A LOT OF ENERGY. THEN WE HAD ETH YEAR WHEN EVERYTHINGAS W VIRTUAL. BEST YEAR WAAS HYBRID. VEGAS KNOWS HOW TO DO BIG EVENTS AND THROW A PARTY AND MAKE THINGSEE S HUGE, SO WE ARE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK TO SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE FESTIVE IN KEEPING WITH WHAT WE HAD THE FIRST YEAR WE DID THIS ABCON. STEPHEN: ONE THING I’M HOPING TO SEE AND MAYBE YOU CAN BRINGS U IN, THAT PEAK BEHIND THE CURTAIN WE SAW THAT GETTI TNGO KNOW SOME OF THESE ATHLETES A BIT MORE. ARE YOU STILL PLANNGIN ON HAVING CAMERAS INSIDE HOUSES TO SEE REACTIONS OF GUYS WHO MIGHT NOT BE IN THE GREEN ROOM? >> WE ARE. THERE WILL BE CAMERAS THERE. THERE WILL BE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE GREENROOM. IT IS EASIER TSHI YEAR. THAT IS THE FOCUS OF THE ABC TELECAST, NOT TO THE COMPLETE EXCLUSION OF HOW GUYS FIT WITH THEIR NEW TEAMS SCHEMATICALLY, BUTHE T FOCUS ANDHE T BACKBONE OF OUR TELECAST WILL BE CAPTURING THAT HUMAN SIDE, IF YOU WILL. AL THOLSE THINGS I THINK WILL ALLOW PEOPLE TO GET A LITTLE BIT BETTER UNDERSTANDING FOR THE GUY INSIDE THE UNIFORM INSTEAD OF JUST A GUY WHO FITS IN AS AN EXPORT IN OH- - X OR AN O. STHEEP THEY HAVE A LOT OF PICKS IN THE FIRST TWO ROUNDS. WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY SHOULD GO AND WHO ARE SOME NAMES YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT DEWI RECEIVER POSITION THAT THE PACKERS ARE HOPINTOG HAVE? >> THE PACKERS NEREV ASKED FOR MY ADVICE. WHY NOT TAKE OTW BITES OF THE APPLE? IN THE FIRST ROUND, I WOULD LOOK AT A GUY LIKE DODSON FROM PENN STATE IF HE IS STILL AROUND. HE IS A SHIFT YEAR KIND OF GUY WITH TREMENDOUS HANDS. ANOTHER PLAYER IS A BIG PHYSICAL GUY FROM ARKANSAS, TIFHAT IS THE WAY THEY GO. WITH THAT SECOND PICK, IF THEY GO IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION OR DON’T CHOOSE TWO WIDE RECEIVERS IN THE FIRST, MAY BE MORE OF A PROJECT, BUT CHRISTIAN WATSON FROM NORTH DAKOTA STATE IS A GUY I REALLY LIKE. IN THE SECOND ROUND, I THINK THE PACKERS WOULD BE REALLY WISE IF THEY COULD GET THE PLAYER FROM CINCINNATI. THAT WOULD BE A GOOD PICK. HE REALLY SHOWED UP AT THE COMBINE. THERE IS A DEEP LISOFT REALLY GOOD WIDE RECEIVERS THAT I THINK WOULD MAKE PACKERS FANS VERY HAPPY. STEPHEN: THE LT ASTWO DRAFTS HAVE BEEN HIGHLIGHTED BY AARON RODGERS NOT BEING HAPPY WITH THE JORDAN LOVE PICK IN LAST YEAR, THE DRAMA UNFOLDING ABOUT HIS DIRUNTLESG NATURE WITH THE PACKERS FRONT OFFICE. DO YOU THINK AARON RODGERS WILL BE HAPPY WHEN THINGS ARE DONE BY THE END OF THIS WEEKEND? >> YOU KNOW, I THINK. IF THEY TAKE SOME OF THOSE RECEIVERS I MENTIONED, I THINK THEY WILL. THAT IS SOMETHING TO CONSIDER. YOU WILL BE RIGHT THERE WITH THEM AND WOULD KNOW THIS BETTER. BECAUSOFE THIS STAGE OF AARON RODGERS CAREER, I WOULD PROBABLY LEAN, IF IT'’ CLOSE, EVALUIOATN, TO THE MORE POLISHED GUY. STEPHEN: YOU MENTIONED NASHVILLE. YOU WILL BE IN VEG.AS WAS HE THINK AN NFL DRAFT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN GREEN BAY? -- WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD AN NFL DRAFT LOOK KELI IN GREEN BAY? >> IF OTHER EVENTARE S ANY INDICATION, PROBABLY FEREW SUPERSTAR THE NIGHTCLUB ACTS WE WILL TRY TO INCORPORATE TONIGHT. I AM NOT SURE WITHHE T MAGICIAN SCENE IS LIKE IN GREEN BAY, BUT I WODUL IMAGINE THAT WE WLDOU HAVE A TON OF ENERGY, THAT THERE WOULD BE PLENTY OF GOOD BEVERAGES INVOLVED IN GREEN BAY. IT WOULD BE FESTIVE, TO SAY THE LEAST. STEPHEN: WE KWNO THAT YOU WOULD BE WELL FED. >> I KNOW THAT. STEPN: HOPEFULLY WE CAN SEE IT DOWN THE LINE. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME AND BEST OF LUCK ON THE TELECAST.
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1-on-1 with 2022 NFL Draft host Rece Davis

WISN 12 has been your home for the draft for the last couple of years.

WISN 12 has been your home for the draft for the last couple of years. WISN 12 Sports' Stephen Watson caught up with Rece Davis, who will once again host the draft on ABC.

WISN 12 has been your home for the draft for the last couple of years.

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WISN 12 Sports' Stephen Watson caught up with Rece Davis, who will once again host the draft on ABC.