The Pittsburgh Steelers couldn’t turn their noses up to the Chicago Bears’ offer of a second-round draft choice just ahead of the trade deadline a couple of weeks ago in exchange for third-year wide receiver Chase Claypool.
This is not an organization that is in the habit of diminishing their chances of winning in-season, which is why it marked the first trade away of a non-disgruntled player who wanted to be traded in about three decades.
While the future second-round pick is nice, of course, the team’s present task is figuring out how to occupy the snaps and targets and touches that Claypool as a starting wide receiver was seeing this season.