As per the new NFL CBA, the active roster will be expanded to 55 players per team. After drafting Notre Dame's Cole Kmet, the Chicago Bears now have 10 tight ends on their roster. Simple math tells us that almost 20% of the Chicago Bears are tight ends.
The Bears had the league's least productive group of tight ends in 2019. Veteran Trey Burton led Chicago tight ends with only 14 catches, while J.P. Holtz topped all tight ends on the roster with just 91 receiving yards.
So, to recap: the Chicago Bears, with nine of the least productive tight ends in the league, added another tight end to a roster that could've added two extra non-tight ends, and this brings their percentage of tight ends on their roster to something resembling the percentage of offensive lineman on their roster.
Will the Bears keep all of these tight ends? No, they're in rebuilding mode and all but two will get released or traded. Is this temporarily very funny? Yes, and it's a hilarious example of gross roster mismanagement.
Do I secretly hope that Chicago's management has gone insane and that this is actually part of a plot to make the entire roster tight ends? Yes, yes I do.
