The Bears will begin the 2016 season with two de facto No. 1 draft choices as the team has elected to let rookie wide receiver Kevin White, the No. 7-overall pick of the 2015 draft, finish the year on the reserve/physically unable to perform list.
The decision ends a frustrating half-year for White, who went into June as a projected starter opposite Alshon Jeffery and in a three-receiver group with Eddie Royal, but finished that month on the sidelines with what was subsequently diagnosed as a stress fracture of his left tibia. White began practicing with the team on Nov.