We're truly in the slowest part of the NFL calendar right now.
Between July 4 and the start of training camp, if your favorite team is making headlines on SportsCenter, it's probably not a good thing. Now's the time for Remembering Guys on Twitter and perusing through everyone's offseason Top-10 lists until you find something to be angry about.
And since there currently aren't any deeply egregious lists to be mad about (yet – it's only Monday) let's try and Remember A Guy. The internet's most overdone trend is also one that will never die – in fact, Remembering A Guy on the Bears is the entire point of this blog.
The Guy that we're about to remember was barely on the team, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. That's right – the answer you've been waiting for all summer is here: Robert Tonyan is probably not going to make the Chiefs' roster. Now you can finally rest before training camp begins.
Robert Tonyan has an uphill climb to make an NFL roster in 2025
If you don't remember Tonyan from the six starts, 11 catches, or 112 receiving yards he had in Chicago, I can't blame you. On the long arc of Chicago Bears history, 2023 will be a dark hole that everyone conveniently forgets. But he was there, catching 11 balls for 112 yards. It happened.
After an even more underwhelming – seriously, don't look – season with the Vikings last year, Tonyan found himself on the Chiefs' roster as TE4. Third-stringer Jared Wiley is coming off an ACL tear, so maybe there's hope for Tonyan yet, but it's hard to see a world where he's going to have any role on the team that can't be done by Travis Kelce or Noah Gray. The Chiefs even have a fullback on the roster, so it's not like Tonyan can hold onto the blocking-tight-end-who-quite-literally-only-does-just-that routine.
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Robert Tonyan: certainly not on the Bears anymore, and probably not on the Chiefs for much longer, either. And now the most depressing round of Remembering That Guy has come to a close. (Until we talk about, like, Eddy Pineiro.)