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Former Chicago Bears TE Dax Raymond
The tight ends room of the Chicago Bears has turn into a little bit of a league-wide joke. After taking Notre Dame tight finish Cole Kmet with the 43rd general within the second spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft, the Bears had amassed a whopping 10 tight ends, which despatched Twitter right into a little bit of a frenzy.
A couple of days after the draft, the workforce is now again to single-digit tight ends, nevertheless. The Bears have waived tight finish Dax Raymond, the workforce introduced by way of their Twitter account Monday morning.
The discharge of Raymond isn’t the slightest bit shocking, and it’s the primary of many cuts that might want to happen as a way to trim the proverbial fats in that room.
The Bears signed Raymond, an undrafted free agent out of Utah State, to their apply squad final season, and he by no means noticed the sector. Chicago picked him up final summer season after the workforce noticed potential in him. Bears scout, David Williams, mentioned the next about Raymond: “That is a person who’s good, he’s aggressive and he’s versatile,” Williams mentioned. “Guys at Utah State, you wish to see them stand out relative to the remainder of their Mountain West competitors, and he’s a man who actually stood out from a receiving standpoint.”
With a sea of tight ends, the Bears will likely be compelled to slim the group right down to 4 or 5. The 9 remaining tight ends on the Bears roster embrace: Jimmy Graham, Demetrius Harris, Adam Shaheen, Ben Braunecker, Jesper Horsted, J.P. Holtz, Eric Saubert and Darion Clark.
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