Chicago will host the NFL draft for the second consecutive year in 2016, but after that the NFL plans to take bids from several cities and turn the draft into a traveling road show. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, however, has other ideas.
Emanuel told WSCR in Chicago that his city is already working not only on the details of the 2016 draft, but on its bid for 2017 and beyond. Eventually, Emanuel hopes Chicago does such a good job hosting the draft that the NFL moves it to Chicago permanently.
“I told my team . . . yes, we’ve won this a second time, I said, but we’re not going in like this is ours, we’re going in like we’re going to compete to win it a third time.