WHAT: 80th annual NFL player selection meeting
WHEN: 8 p.m. April 30 (Round 1); 7 p.m. May 1 (Rounds 2-3); noon May 2 (Rounds 4-7)
WHERE: Downtown Chicago (Auditoriumn Theatre at Roosevelt University)
TV: NFL Network; ESPN
SELECTIONS: 256, including 32 compensatory choices awarded to 14 teams that suffered a net loss of certain quality unrestricted free agents last year.
TIME PER PICK: Round 1, 10 minutes; Round 2, seven minutes; Rounds 3-6, five minutes; Round 7 and compensatory picks: four minutes
FIRST OVERALL PICK: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for the first time in 27 years.