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Alright. Trade deadline one p.m. Eastern time we have

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another deal tom police ero chase Claypool is on the

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move. That's right. Andrew the Chicago bears who

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have been sellers so far over the past week.

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Our buyers today, they get wide receiver Chase Claypool

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from the Steelers for a 2023 2nd round draft pick

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. This is a big move for Chicago to try

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to help out their quarterback Justin Fields who has certainly

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played better in recent weeks here. This is the

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guy that they want to build around and frankly they

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needed to give him some more weapons. The Bears

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have a ton of flexibility in the coming years.

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Even after eating salary to get better picks for like

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cereal, Kwan smith and robert Quinn. They now

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have, well they had nine picks. Now they

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have eight picks in the 2023 draft. And prior

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to this move, they were projected to have close

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to 100 and$20 million in 2023 cap space.

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This is not a rent a player situation here.

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Andrew. Claypool is under contract for about$1.5 million

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in 2023. So it's a multi year move for

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Chicago. And as for the Steelers, they're in

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an unusual position right now where based upon their record

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, they're not the buyers that they otherwise would be

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in this situation. They've been struggling to figure out

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how to spread the ball around within that offense.

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They've obviously had a quarterback change. Claypool has spoken

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openly about not having enough go balls in the offense

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. One thing Justin Fields can do is throw the

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football down the field and you would anticipate that luke

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get C. And company will be figuring out ways

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for him to do that to chase Claypool well,

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starting sooner than later. This one's interesting. Claypool

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was at one point the 49th overall pick. So

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he was a second round pick, which means his

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rookie contract is four years. So as you mentioned

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under contract for next year, the Bears did have

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two second round picks next year remains to be seen

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which one they're giving up whether it's their own,

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which you would have to think would be a higher

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pick than the one they got yesterday from Baltimore.

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For rock juan smith. So one of those twos

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is going to Pittsburgh, thank you. Tom.