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Dick Butkus, Jim Kelly among former players scheduled to announce picks in second round

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The NFL will be holding the draft in Chicago this year and one of the city’s most-loved football players is scheduled to announce the Bears’s second-round pick.

Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus is one of the 32 retired players that the NFL announced will be taking part in the draft by announcing picks by their former teams. It’s the fifth year that the NFL has involved former players in the event and Butkus will be joined by five other Hall of Famers, including former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly.

Kelly, who was declared cancer-free last year, will be announcing the first pick of the Rex Ryan era in Buffalo since the Bills don’t have a pick in the first round.