Baltimore Ravens NFL Draft 2020: How To Watch, Projected Picks

Amid the coronavirus crisis in the United States, the NFL Draft is set to be the only major sporting event happening in April. The 2020 draft will begin Thursday night, and the Baltimore Ravens have the 28th pick of the first round.

The Ravens are coming off a year in which they finished with the best regular-season record in the league before suffering a dramatic upset loss to the Tennessee Titans in the playoffs.

The team is filled with studs going into the 2020 season, with reigning MVP Lamar Jackson, running back Mark Ingram and defensive force Marcus Peters. But there is still room for Baltimore to improve.

CBS Sports projects the Ravens to select Kenneth Murray with their first-round pick. The linebacker out of Oklahoma is the second-best player in the 2020 draft at his position, according to CBS Sports.

The Baltimore Ravens official team website also put out a mock draft for all seven rounds of Thursday's draft. The mock draft includes an important disclaimer that "this comes with ZERO inside knowledge from anyone in the Raven's front office or scouting department."

The predictions from the Ravens' website have Baltimore selecting an edge rusher, A.J. Epensa, a 6-foot-5-inch, 275-pound prospect out of Iowa. Visit the Baltimore Raven's website to see the full mock draft.

The 2020 NFL Draft will take place from Thursday to Saturday, but it won't look anything like how it did in previous years.

The whole process will be virtual.

Teams will complete the draft from their homes, communicating through virtual platforms such as Zoom and Skype to make their selections. All 32 general managers will be connected through one video conference and then will have a separate broadband connection with members of the NFL league office.

How To Watch

There will be a combined broadcast with ESPN and the NFL Network for all three nights of the draft, with analysts from both networks working from home. The broadcast will originate from ESPN's studio in Bristol, Connecticut, and will feature Trey Wingo as the host.

Additionally, there will be a separate broadcast on ABC for the first two nights that will focus on storytelling and paths that certain draft picks took to make it to the NFL.

All broadcasts will also take place on ESPN Deportes.

Here's the TV schedule:

• Round 1: Thursday, 8-11:30 p.m. ET.
• Rounds 2-3: Friday, 7-11:30 p.m. ET.
• Rounds 4-7: Saturday, noon-7 p.m. ET.