Projected top NFL pick and former Texas A&M DE Myles Garrett "plans to spend draft night around family and friends in his hometown of Arlington, Texas," and he will do it with the NFLPA and ACE Media "helping to recreate much of what he may miss being at the big show," according to Albert Breer of THE MMQB. Garrett told his agent, Bus Cook, that he "wanted to stay home on April 27, and afford more people close to him the chance to experience the night with him." Cook then mentioned that to the NFLPA, and the union "came up with the idea to run the show through ACE Media," which launched in '15 as an "extension of their for-profit arm, Players Inc." Plans are "well underway." NFLPA President Eric Winston said, "We wanted to give guys the opportunity where they don’t feel like they have to go to the draft, they can have the day at their house and host all their family and friends, but still be able to capture it for them. And to have Myles Garrett, maybe the first pick, do it is awesome." ACE is "still in its infancy, but the concept upon launch was to find a way to capture the off-field lives of players, and the execution of the concept has already had a few trials runs." How ACE will "handle Garrett’s draft night is still up in the air." It may "stream it live, or just do produced content." The level of access to Garrett also is "still to be worked out." Garrett will be the "only one ACE does this for this year." But there is a "good chance that the union will grow" this in '18 to where ACE is "doing multiple players at multiple sites" (MMQB.SI.com, 4/6).
