The Broncos and City of Denver continue their push to bring an NFL draft to the Mile High City.

Broncos CEO Joe Ellis and team director of partnership marketing Sandy Young were joined by Richard Scharf, the president/CEO of Visit Denver, and Matthew Payne, the executive director of the Denver Sports Commission, in a meeting with league officials in New York on Wednesday to sell Denver as a future host city of the draft.

Dallas is scheduled to host the 2018 draft.

The Broncos have been interested in hosting a draft for years, and Ellis told The Denver Post in September that the Broncos and Visit Denver planned to pitch Denver again.

“The draft is something we’d really like to see accomplished,” Ellis said. “I think it’d be nice for Mr. B (owner Pat Bowlen), to know that the city he’s witnessed tremendous support from in terms of what they’ve done for the Broncos and how important the Broncos are to people and how important football is to people.

“We believe it would be a great thing for the city, a great thing for Colorado, a great thing for this Rocky Mountain region. It would draw a lot of people and would be a really fun event.”

Ellis said then that he had already had preliminary discussions with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about bringing a draft to Denver and believed the city has “an excellent chance” if the right package is put together.

The Broncos had considered submitting bids for earlier drafts, but scheduling conflicts with the City of Denver limited possible venues to host. Denver could use Philadelphia’s model from 2017 and create a theater or temporary venue exclusively for the draft downtown.

“It’s hard, it’s complicated because the city of Denver has so much popularity when it comes to conventions and tourism and a lot of commitments,” Ellis said. “But we’ll just have to work around that and see if we can get it.”

9News first reported the meeting with league officials in New York.