Chicago traded Chase Claypool and its 2025 seventh-round pick…

The trade terms are confirmed by both clubs. On October 6, 2023, Chicago sent wide receiver Chase Claypool and its 2025 seventh-round selection to Miami for the Dolphins' 2025 sixth-round pick. Miami's announcement and Chicago's transaction ledger match on that structure. The future picks later settled at No. 192 for Chicago and No. 224 for Miami, but neither club simply exercised the selection it received, so the later asset chains need to be described without assigning every downstream player to the Claypool trade.

Claypool's Dolphins tenure was brief and lightly productive. NFL records show him appearing in nine Miami regular-season games in 2023 without a start, catching four passes for 26 yards and no touchdowns. He did not play for Miami after that season. The Dolphins therefore received only a small amount of direct player production from the centerpiece of their side of the deal.

Miami's acquired seventh-rounder retained value. The pick became No. 224 in the 2025 draft. Miami later packaged No. 224 with pick No. 116 in a trade with Houston and received No. 179 plus a 2026 third-round selection. Houston used No. 224 on defensive tackle Kyonte Hamilton. Because Miami had to include a much more valuable fourth-round pick to make that exchange, TradeVerdicts does not credit the later sixth-round player or the future third wholly to the Claypool transaction. The appropriate credit is that the seventh-rounder remained a usable component of a larger draft-day trade.

Chicago's sixth-rounder followed a more productive path. The Dolphins-derived pick became No. 192. In August 2024, the Bears traded that selection to Cleveland for defensive tackle Chris Williams and a 2025 seventh-round pick, No. 240. Williams then appeared in all 17 games for Chicago in 2024 with one start, recording 23 combined tackles and three sacks, and played 14 more games in 2025 with 14 tackles and one sack. That is 31 Bears games and four sacks from the direct veteran acquired for the No. 192 asset.

Pick No. 240 also remained useful, though its downstream credit must be limited. Chicago included No. 240 with picks No. 41 and No. 72 in its 2025 draft trade with Buffalo, receiving Nos. 56, 62 and 109. The Bears then used or moved those higher selections in additional transactions. Since No. 240 was the least valuable component in a three-for-three exchange, none of those later players should be treated as a direct product of the Claypool deal. Still, Chicago extracted a veteran defensive contributor from No. 192 and preserved another tradable pick. That creates the stronger hindsight return. A B for Chicago and C+ for Miami reflects the Bears' 31 games of Williams production plus residual pick value against Claypool's 26 receiving yards and Miami's smaller downstream asset contribution.