Chase Claypool

Former Bears wide receiver Chase Claypool most likely won’t play for the Bills this season. The team placed the pass catcher on injured reserve with a toe injury on Tuesday, which all but ends his season in Buffalo. IR rules in the NFL around the preseason are complex and recently changed. Previously a player needed to make the 53-man...

One Canadian Football team is preparing for the possibility that Chase Claypool leaves the NFL. According to multiple reports, the Saskatchewan Roughriders added the former Bears receiver to their exclusive negotiation list. That doesn’t mean Claypool is headed back to Canada, where he grew up, or even that he’s spoken with the Roughriders. CFL by-laws allow teams to carry...

Bears players don’t have a clear idea about why things fell apart with Chase Claypool. But they can’t focus on what might have been. In the NFL, a short memory is vital.

The Miami Dolphins are fully embracing their new acquisition, Chase Claypool, with open arms. In fact, his new teammate Tyreek Hill had some kind words and a positive analogy for Claypool … I think? “What’s crazy is, man, he looks like a vending machine out there, man, when he’s running,” Hill said. “Very fast. Very fluid in his routes....

“Chase Claypool, please listen to me, brother.” Chase Claypool, now former Chicago Bears wide receiver, was traded this week to the Miami Dolphins with a 2025 seventh-round pick for a 2025 sixth-round selection. The trade ended a disaster experiment the Bears launched with Claypool last season. Nearing the NFL trade deadline in 2022, Ryan Poles and the front office opted…

Now that the Chase Claypool era is done, after just 10 games, the only way to look at the trade that brought him to Chicago is as an enormous swing and miss. GM Ryan Poles gave up what ended up being the No. 32 pick in the 2023 draft for a guy who created more headaches than scoring opportunities. In…

On Thursday night, the Bears got their first win in 347 days with a 40-20 victory over the Washington Commanders fueled by an explosion from DJ Moore. It took the Bears just 12 hours to collect their second win of the week. On Friday morning, the Bears finally unloaded Chase Claypool, trading the disgruntled wide receiver to the Miami Dolphins…

Former Bears wide receiver Chase Claypool is headed to the Miami Dolphins.

Ryan Poles hopped on ESPN 1000 ahead of the Bears Thursday night game against the Commanders to talk about the team. He broached the subject of Chase Claypool, too. “You’re always disappointed in the situation and it’s definitely something I take ownership of,” Poles said. “Last year in the situation we were in, we wanted to add another receiver...

Ryan Poles had big dreams for Chase Claypool in a Bears uniform. But what has transpired in the 11 months since the wide receiver arrived has been the opposite of the GM’s vision.

Justin Fields called Chase Claypool on Saturday, after the Bears knew who was going to play against the Broncos in Week 4 and who was going to be inactive. He didn’t want to get into the details of everything that went into Claypool being made inactive, he just wanted to call, as a friend, and see how Claypool was doing….

Early this summer, when we got our first look at Chase Claypool in Bears practice, it became clear that Claypool brought a lot of passion to the field. He was extremely competitive and talked a ton of trash. When channeled properly that type of energy can fuel tough practices where iron sharpens iron and all those football clichés you’ve...

Chase Claypool will not play against the Commanders when the Bears travel to Washington this Thursday. Further, he won’t even be at Halas Hall as the team gets ready for the game. Bears head coach Matt Eberflus said on “The Kap and J Hood Show” on ESPN 1000 that the embattled wide receiver won’t be in the team’s facilities...

Before the Bears let another win slip away in disappointing fashion, the big news of the day was the team’s decision to make Chase Claypool inactive for Week 4. That news became even bigger when folks noticed Claypool wasn’t at Soldier Field for the game. That’s not typical. Usually guys who don’t earn a jersey on game day still...

The Chase Claypool trade has been a loss for the Bears for quite some time. With the receiver being a healthy scratch Sunday, it’s time for Ryan Poles to end a failed experiment.

Chicago Bears wide receiver Chase Claypool has made plenty of headlines this season, but he apparently will not suit up for Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos.

Chase Claypool, like a lot of the Bears players, hasn’t come out of the gates strong. Specifically, in Week 1, Claypool didn’t come to play. He left a lot of what Bears players and coaches call “loafs” on the field. That means he played lazily and failed to live up to the team’s coveted H.I.T.S principle. But one ex-NFL...

The effort is there today. Chase Claypool scored his first touchdown with the Chicago Bears late in Sunday’s game against the Buccaneers. Justin Fields threaded the needle on a throw to Claypool for the endzone late in the fourth quarter. Claypool has three catches on seven targets for 36 yards and a touchdown. Before Sunday’s game, FOX Sports’ Jay...

One of the most significant storylines following the Bears after one week of football is Chase Claypool. The wide receiver — for whom the Bears traded the No. 32 pick in the previous NFL draft — gave a lackluster effort for the Bears against the Packers in Week 1. He missed blocks, dropped passes and failed to put anything on…

During Week 1 of the NFL season, the Bears got punched in the mouth by their NFC North adversary — the Green Bay Packers. Part of the problem — surprisingly — was effort. Specifically, wide receiver Chase Claypool failed to show 100% effort in multiple instances. Whether it was missing blocks or dropping passes on the field, he didn’t appear…