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The Bears didn’t build a roster last year as much as they threw one together and hoped someone would stick.
At the beginning of a rebuild — they had no first-round picks and more dead cap space than any other team — the Bears hunted for value, on the cheap, to bolster one of the league’s worst rosters. Their big wide receiver additions were Byron Pringle and N’Keal Harry, who are both, a year later, out of football. After cut day, the Bears claimed a league-high six players, taking flyers on other teams’ castoffs whom they believed to be better than their own.