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LANDOVER, Md. — Bears general manager Ryan Poles is talking about Chase Claypool’s time with the team in the past tense.
In an appearance on the team’s official pregame show on ESPN 1000 on Thursday night, Poles defended the process that went into perhaps his worst move: trading a second-round pick to the Steelers last year for the mercurial wide receiver.
The Bears made him inactive Sunday — his declaration that the team wasn’t using him properly was the latest in a series of actions the Bears disapproved of — and then told him not to come to Halas Hall this week.