LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles believes he did the best he could to improve the team’s pass rush without throwing away its future.

Chicago acquired defensive lineman Joe Tryon-Shoyinka in a trade with Cleveland at the deadline on Tuesday. Tryon-Shoyinka, a former first-round pick by Tampa Bay, should help make up for the loss of defensive end Dayo Odeyingbo to a season-ending Achilles tendon injury.

“All I can say is we made calls across the league and I check up on all of the guys you would imagine just to see the availability,” Poles said Wednesday.

Bears coach Ben Johnson said the team was “kind of low in numbers there in that D-line room.”

"So adding Joe into the equation should hopefully give us a little boost here for the second half,” he said.

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