Scoop: Trump plans to announce D.C. will host 2027 NFL Draft

• The team has played in suburban Prince George's County, Maryland, for nearly three decades at a stadium built by former team owner Jack Kent Cooke.

Zoom in: The new stadium at the old RFK site is tentatively scheduled to open in 2030, but needs to be approved by the D.C. Council.

• It would be part of a massive $3.7 billion redevelopment project that would include the 65,00-seat domed stadium, 6,000 homes and an entertainment district.
• The project was unveiled by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the team last week. The Commanders would pay $2.7 billion for the stadium, with $1 billion in taxpayer dollars used to build infrastructure on the site.
• Bowser wants the D.C. Council to approve the project by July 15. The council's approval isn't assured — Council Chair Phil Mendelson is deeply skeptical of using public funds for the project.

The intrigue: If the D.C. Council kills the project, the Trump administration hypothetically could pick it up.

• Congress gave the District long-term authority over the federally owned RFK site last December. It could retake it if Trump were to become personally invested in getting a stadium done.

Trump has embraced the NFL to help motivate his political base and has praised the plan to have Washington's team return to its roots in the city.

• He has celebrated the stadium plan on social media, saying "the new Stadium Deal is a HUGE WIN for Washington, D.C."

Zoom out: The NFL has made a spectacle of its three-day player draft in recent years, rotating the event among cities where its teams are based.

• This year's draft was in Green Bay, Wis., and next year's will begin on April 23 in Pittsburgh.