The Bears are one tight end addition away from being able to put an offense of only tight ends on the field.
Chicago selected Notre Dame's Cole Kmet with the 43rd overall pick on Friday. Kmet will likely join free-agent acquisition Jimmy Graham at the top of the team's depth chart (listed alphabetically below).
Here's a list of tight ends on the Bears after drafting Cole Kmet.
— Sporting News (@sportingnews) April 25, 2020
Ben Braunecker
Darion Clark
Jimmy Graham
Demetrius Harris
J.P. Holtz
Jesper Horsted
Cole Kmet
Dax Raymond
Eric Saubert
Adam Shaheen#NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/S7Izv0j33A
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Unless coach Matt Nagy and GM Ryan Pace have some innovative new offense (diabolic scheme) to overload the field with tight ends, most of these guys won't be on the roster when the season starts.
Ryan Pace's plan to assemble a roster of 53 tight ends so no one else will have a tight end is definitely high risk/high reward.
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) April 24, 2020
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Kmet is from the Chicago area and went to college at nearby Notre Dame. He was emotional when he got the call that he'd be staying home with the Bears.
Really cool reaction from Cole Kmet and his family when they found out that he is a Chicago Bear.🐻
— Daniel Greenberg (@ChiSportUpdates) April 25, 2020
(Via @colekmet/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/s2vtauBnP8
The Bears hope Kmet becomes the best of the group.
Twitter reacts to crowded Bears tight end room
It's currently against CDC guidelines for all the Bears TEs to be in the same room together
— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) April 25, 2020
10 Tigh Ends is so damn funny. If the Bears are going to be bad at least be funny and 10 tight ends is hilarious (also I love the pick)
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) April 25, 2020
Bears TE meeting Monday pic.twitter.com/rOGfxjWc0z
— Joe Byrne (@DiscoNByrno) April 25, 2020
Pace texts Bears front office group chat: “Why have nine tight ends ...”
— Elias Schuster (@Schuster_Elias) April 25, 2020
Everyone else in Bears front office group chat: “Don’t do it, Ryan.”
Pace: “WHEN YOU CAN HAVE 10” [smashes enter key on computer]!!