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Mar 3, 2021
The Bears made tight end a priority last year and Cole Kmet finished strong in his rookie year, leading to hope they hadn t squandered a second-round pick the way they did three years earlier with Adam Shaheen.
It remains a position of interest because a team can use two or even three tight ends, but other needs rule out any interest in selecting Florida s consensus first-rounder Kyle Pitts, if not Boston College s Hunter Long and Penn State s Pat Freiermuth.
Both Long and Freiermuth come from schools long associated with the tight end position and are expected to be second- or early third-round selections by FanNation s NFL Draft Bible during a year when the tight end class looks deeper.