Bears general manager Ryan Pace was more invested in wide receiver Anthony Miller than anyone else at Halas Hall after trading up to draft him three years ago, but even he couldn’t keep waiting. Rather than holding out hope that he’d become more reliable, Pace packaged Miller and a seventh-round pick in a trade to the Texans for a 2022 fifth-rounder.
“It just became a situation where, hey, both parties can benefit,” said Pace, who added that he’d been talking to Houston all summer about the deal. “Once I realized we could get a fifth-round pick out of this.