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Don't look for the NFL Draft to return to Chicago next year.Although the league has been happy with the city, Commi sioner Roger Goodell on Friday that the draft will "very likely" move to another city in 2017.If the draft does move, it means that Nick Collison Jersey the event will have been hosted by three different cities in four years. The Windy City is set to host the 2016 draft, which begins on Thursday. This year's draft will mark the second consecutive year that Chicago has hosted. Before that, New York had hosted every draft since 1965.It looks like the NFL's goal is James Johnson Jersey to spread the wealth.When the league draft back in 2014, over a dozen responded, including: New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, Orlando, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and Canton (Ohio). The bid eventually went to Chicago.This time around, there's at least two new cities that are interested in hosting: Denver and Atlanta.A spokesman the team is hoping to bring the 2019 draft to Denver. According to NFL.com, Canton is the 2019 (or 2020) draft.On Atlanta's end, owner Arthur Blank is hoping to host a draft in the team's Oklahoma City Thunder Jeresy new stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2017. "Absolutely, we want to see it in Atlanta," Blank . "We've told that to the NFL. We would hold it down at the World Congre s Center next to the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in some form or fashion," Blank said. "For all the reasons we would be the perfect site for a , we would be the perfect site for the draft."Los Angeles would also seem like a strong candidate now that it Oklahoma City Thunder Hats officially has a team. L.A. was the 2015 draft.Whatever happens with the draft, don't look for an announcement to come anytime soon. An NFL spokesman that a decision on the location of next year's draft won't come until later in 2016. "No locations have been determined beyond this year's draft," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. "Multiple cities and teams have Justin Jackson Jersey expre sed interest in hosting future drafts. No decisions will be made until later this year."