Cole Kmet holds the TE · Backup spot in Chicago Bears’s tight end room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Cole Kmet played 18 games in 2025 with a 71% snap share.

Cole Kmet enters his seventh season with the Chicago Bears in 2026. The 6'6", 258-pound tight end was selected 43rd overall in the 2020 NFL Draft out of Notre Dame. In 2025, Kmet recorded 33 receptions for 378 yards and three touchdowns across 16 games, including six catches for 47 yards in two playoff contests. He appeared in his 100th career game in Week 18 and moved to second in Bears history for receiving touchdowns by a tight end. Over his career, Kmet has compiled 288 receptions for 2,939 yards and 21 touchdowns while ranking first among Bears tight ends in first-down receptions since 1994.

Notre Dame2017 – 2019

Bears2020 — present

CollegeNotre DameDraftRound 2 · No. 43 overall · 2020 · CHIHometownLake Barrington, IL