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Before the first selection of the 2023 NFL Draft, the league welcomed the three University of Virginia football players killed in a Nov. 13 shooting to the NFL family as honorary draft picks.
D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler lost their lives after former UVA football player Christopher Jones Jr. allegedly opened fire on a charter bus that had just returned to campus from a field trip to Washington, D.C.
D’Brickashaw Ferguson, a three-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle with the New York Jets who played at Virginia before being drafted in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft, spoke about each player prior to commissioner Roger Goodell announcing the first picks of the draft.
