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A year ago, Bears general manager Ryan Pace traded a second-round draft pick to the Pittsburgh Steelers for wide receiver Chase Claypool. On Tuesday, he traded a second-round draft pick to the Washington Commanders for defensive end Montez Sweat.
In the dysfunctional world of Halas Hall, that’s progress. Poles paid a high price for control of Sweat’s contract rights, but at least this time he dealt for a player on an upward career arc, who is having his best season and whose coach wanted to keep him.