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Last stand? Bears TE Cole Kmet is once again forced to convince a new coach he can be a difference maker

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It’s hard for tight end Cole Kmet to believe he’s already in his sixth season with the Bears — “crazy,” he says, though not as crazy as the line of people he’s seen come and go at Halas Hall.

Ben Johnson is his third head coach and sixth play caller, and as Kmet counted names in his head, he laughed hard and confirmed, “That sounds right... It’s been a carousel.”

It sounds accurate, not right. Nothing about his time here has been quite right.

He’s on his fifth full-time starting quarterback in Caleb Williams, and Kmet’s statistics have bounced all over the place as he’s navigated the tumult of the Bears going 29-55.