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49ers top pick Nick Bosa is great-grandson of infamous Chicago mobster

49ers edge rusher Nick Bosa is the son of an NFL first-round draft pick, the brother of one of the league's most dominant defensive players and the great-grandson of the longtime head of the Chicago mafia.

Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim wrote a story on the No. 2 overall pick's great-grandfather, Tony Accardo. Accardo, who died in 1992 of natural causes at the age of 86, was a notorious Chicago mobster nicknamed "Joey Batters" who once served as Al Capone's bodyguard. Once Capone went to prison for tax evasion in 1931, Accardo began his climb to the top of the Chicago Outfit and "was in full control of the Chicago mafia" by the late 1940s, Wertheim wrote.