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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.
Mar 4, 2021
The New Orleans Saints cut tight ends Jared Cook and Josh Hill while the Minnesota Vikings did the same with Kyle Rudolph.
It looks like the comment by an unnamed coach in a Tweet by Dianna Russini of ESPN saying it s .going to be a massacre next week around the league proved inaccurate. That s because it s already begun.
Should the Bears be interested? They have no money for free agent purchases at this moment and have their own free agents to consider. Besides, they re so strapped for cash they could have two tight ends of their own joining free agency soon.
An expanded regular season has been a goal of NFL team owners for years, but Tuesday s vote, which approved a 17th game, wasn t unanimous among owners.
Bears chairman George H. McCaskey voted against the measure, according to four sources who were on the videoconference.
Through a team spokesman, McCaskey declined comment to ESPN.
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Tuesday s vote was long-awaited and was hailed as a monumental moment in NFL history by commissioner Roger Goodell. But it has also been a source of tension with many players, including Alvin Kamara of the New Orleans Saints, who earlier this week tweeted that it was S - dumb . as hell.
Projecting who appears likely to go and who likely stays when the Chicago Bears make final decisions on free agency with the signing period rapidly approaching.