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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 e...

Feb 24, 2021 Bears coach Matt Nagy did a complete revamp of his coaching staff when the season ended, caused in some cases by the loss of staff members to more stable working situations. When an assistant coach's contract expires it's better to go somewhere starting up than it is to sit and wait to be fired with everyone or endure uncertainty in an old regime. In some rare instances, a position coach in that situation can find an opening on a staff with an established winner, but usually it doesn't happen because those teams are involved in the playoffs while hiring season occurs. The new pro...

The Bears still don’t know who will actually be throwing passes for them next season, but whoever it is will be under DeFilippo’s watch.

Now that all picks involved in the blockbuster trade have been used, the trade became a seven-player swap in which the Bears received Mack, Kmet and offensive lineman Arlington Hambright. The Raiders received running back Josh Jacobs, receiver Bryan Edwards and cornerbacks Damon Arnette and Blessuan Austin. As the team's highest selection in two years, Kmet was an ideal bet for a de facto first-round pick. Like fellow second-round pick Jaylon Johnson, Kmet left college after only three years. In an alternate reality, both players would likely be picked higher in the upcoming draft if they had...

Copy shortlink: Andrew Janocko was back home in Pennsylvania last January, sitting in a deer stand with his father, Tim, while the Vikings coaches were on a two-week break after the divisional playoff loss to the 49ers, when a call from Vikings coach Mike Zimmer came to his cellphone. Wide receivers coach Drew Petzing was leaving to join Kevin Stefanski in Cleveland, Zimmer said, and the coach wanted Janocko to replace him. Petzing's departure meant two things: That Janocko, who had been with the team since 2015, was now the team's longest-tenured offensive assistant, ...