Best Value For Bears In Every Round By Position: Tight End

Nov 30, 2013; Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels tight end Eric Ebron (85) is knocked out of bounds by Duke Blue Devils cornerback Bryon Fields (14) in the third quarter. The Duke Blue Devils defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 27-25 at Kenan Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports

Tight End is not considered a huge need as is any offensive position largely due in part to last season’s offensive success for the Bears, but to ignore any side of the ball is a sure fire way to go from good to bad in a hurry. One only needs to look to this team’s 2013 season to see an example of such a disaster occurring. The year prior the Bears defense was unprecedented in the way they not only caused turnovers (or as they liked to call it takeaways), but also taking it to the end zone for 6. Well they went from top 5 defense to probably the worst one in the league. The only reason they didn’t rank last is because teams didn’t even have to throw the ball. They just ran all over them. This happened due to a lack of depth once they were devastated with injury, and the depth they replaced the starters with was young and inexperienced. So it’s never too early to build depth through the draft to properly train and develop them, and than use them when they’re actually ready. So let’s look at what the tight end position offers in this draft.