One Canadian Football team is preparing for the possibility that Chase Claypool leaves the NFL. According to multiple reports, the Saskatchewan Roughriders added the former Bears receiver to their exclusive negotiation list.
That doesn’t mean Claypool is headed back to Canada, where he grew up, or even that he’s spoken with the Roughriders. CFL by-laws allow teams to carry 45 names on their exclusive negotiation lists, and that just means that if a player on that list decides to come to Canada they have the exclusive rights to sign him.
Claypool remains a free agent this offseason after a rocky year with the Bears and Dolphins. Right now the free agent market has cooled as teams prepare for the draft, but there’s a chance Claypool still signs on with a team that missed out on WR depth heading into training camp.
The Bears traded a second-round pick for Claypool partway through the 2022 season. It took several …