With more WRs than spots on game days, future should drive Bears’ decisions

Chase Claypool needs to play more and get more targets. Velus Jones and N’Keal Harry should be playing. These next seven games are a chance for the Bears to find out what they have.

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Claypool has three catches for 21 yards over 45 snaps in his first two games with the Bears.Going into the season, it looked like the Bears didn’t have enough wide receivers to cobble together a viable group. Now they have more than they know what to do with on game days.

The long-term goal surely is to build from the top down by finding a wide receiver, perhaps with their upcoming first round pick, even better than Chase Claypool and Darnell Mooney. In the meantime, though, assuming Claypool…