When the Bears packed Brandon Marshall off to the New York Jets in early 2015, it was done with the knowledge that they held the No. 7 pick in a draft class that included Amari Cooper, Tyler Lockett and Kevin White. And they had Alshon Jeffery under contract and coming off consecutive 80-catch, 1,000-yard seasons.
The Bears drafted White, only to lose him to a stress fracture of his leg in 2015 and to a broken leg in 2016. Jeffery played fewer than half the snaps in 2015 and stayed in Chicago only under the team’s franchise tag this season.