Last week, we wondered why the Chicago Bears were hesitant to run their two-tight end sets on offense. For years the argument has been that Matt Nagy does not have the pieces, and now that they kept Jimmy Graham and Cole Kmet in year two, there is no excuse not to be one of the higher used two-tight end teams in the NFL.
That is why Week 1 was so confusing to see them not only below league average but well below their 2020 average. They used two-tight end sets 26% of the time on Sunday, which is a bit more than the 24% they ran from the 2020 bye week when Cole Kmet was added to the offense.