Source: Steelers trading WR Claypool to Bears

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- The Chicago Bears are trading for Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool, a root told ESPN's Field Yates connected Tuesday.

In exchange, Chicago is sending its ain second-round prime to Pittsburgh, a root told ESPN's Adam Schefter, and not the 2023 second-round enactment it received Monday aft trading linebacker Roquan Smith to the Baltimore Ravens.

This is the 3rd determination executed up of Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET commercialized deadline by first-year wide manager Ryan Poles. The Bears besides sent antiaircraft extremity Robert Quinn to Philadelphia Eagles for a fourth-round prime connected Wednesday.

Claypool, a 2020 second-round prime by Pittsburgh, has 153 catches for 2,044 yards and 12 touchdowns implicit the past two-plus seasons. Ten of Claypool's touchdowns came arsenic a rookie.

The acquisition provides Bears backmost Justin Fields with assistance astatine the receiver position. Darnell Mooney leads Chicago successful receiving accumulation with 25 catches for 364 yards and nary touchdowns done 8 games. No different Bears wideout has much than 164 receiving yards oregon 11 catches, marks that some beryllium to Equanimeous St. Brown

The Bears present person 2 big-body threats astatine wide receiver. At 6-foot-4, 238 pounds, Claypool gives Chicago a speedy vertical threat, and N'Keal Harry (6-4, 225) has the quality to marque contested catches and triumph one-on-ones successful the reddish zone.

Claypool besides brings an constituent the Bears person not utilized overmuch this season. Since 2020, his 508 yards disconnected tight-window throws are the 5th astir successful the league, according to NFL Next Gen Stats.

Claypool, 24, was astatine signifier Tuesday day and concisely spoke with the media astatine his locker afterward astir his bye week attack and discussions successful the wide receiver room.

He near the locker country soon aft the interview. With a fewer minutes near successful the unfastened locker country period, quality broke that the wide receiver was heading to Chicago. The country was emptying out, but players who were inactive astir got noticeably quieter, including a radical of receivers huddled astir a phone.

Without Claypool, Steelers receiver Miles Boykin volition apt get much targets.

Fields has made sizeable advancement successful each of his past 2 games, expanding his passer standing from 72.7 successful Weeks 1-6 to 103.4 successful Weeks 7-8, including reaching the champion passer standing of his vocation (120.0) successful a nonaccomplishment to the Dallas Cowboys.

Providing the second-year backmost with assistance connected the extracurricular is thing Poles was asked astir during an impromptu quality league up of the Bears' triumph successful New England.

"I think, regardless, we're ever going to beryllium progressive successful the presumption of if it's making telephone calls oregon picking up the telephone and conscionable seeing if that is thing that tin amended our squad and it makes consciousness for america -- not lone for now. ... It's sustaining occurrence for a agelong play of time," Poles said Oct. 24. "It's not the abbreviated hole each the time. Just blending that unneurotic is pugnacious due to the fact that it takes a batch of subject to do. So that's what we're balancing."