Draft Scout Snapshot:(2005) - 31 catches, 451 yds, 14.5 ypc, 4 TD 31-451-14.5-4 in '05. 16-275-17.2-1 in '04, played w/broken left wrist. Redshirted '03 w/shoulder injury. Signed w/Notre Dame, attended practices before transferring to Miami. Brother Christain is a Virginia prospect. Can LS.
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09/01/10 - TE Greg Olsen has the skill set of a big wide receiver and, if he continues to work on his blocking, he will have a major role in the offense, even though Martz has usually not utilized the tight end as a major weapon in the past. Olsen has the speed to stretch the middle of the field and the size to be a factor in the red zone.
08/08/10 - TE Greg Olsen, who led the Bears with 60 catches last season, had not made much of an impact as a receiver until Friday night's practice at Soldier Field. That was concern the minute Mike Martz was hired as offensive coordinator because he doesn't have a history of utilizing the TE position in the passing game.
Olsen isn't panicking, although he is understandably tired of hearing the questions about his role.
"We've addressed this a ridiculous amount," said Olsen who caught 114 passes for 1,186 yards and 13 touchdowns over the past two seasons. "It is what it is. The past has nothing to do with the guys that we have here. Coach Martz has said all along that the guys who show that they can help the team and make plays and do the thing they're asked to do, are going to play."
06/03/10 - TE Greg Olsen is about the only person not making a big deal about his role in Mike Martz's offense. Olsen led the Bears last season with 60 receptions and eight touchdowns, but Martz's offenses have rarely utilized the tight end to that extent. In Martz's seven years with the Rams, the first season as the offensive coordinator and the next six as head coach, no tight end ever caught more than 38 passes and all the tight ends combined never caught more than 50 passes in one season.
The Bears' new offensive coordinator has mainly used the tight end as an extra blocker in the run game or pass protector. So, when the Bears signed 6-2, 295-pound blocking tight end Brandon Manumaleuna early in free agency, Olsen's demise was widely anticipated. Either he would be traded, or his role as a pass catcher would be drastically reduced, according to the doomsday predictors.
But there was Olsen on Wednesday afternoon at Halas Hall in the first of 14 OTA (organized team activity) practices sprinting down the field catching lasers from Jay Cutler as a member of the first team, often in the same personnel package as fellow tight end Desmond Clark. Manumaleuna has been limited to individual running drill so the sideline since his recent minor arthroscopic knee surgery. Olsen is not worried about his place on the team.
"I've addressed this a million times," he said. "I feel good the way things have gone so far, and it's early in the process, but so far everything's been great."
But, will it remain that way? Olsen will be asked to block more and more effectively than in the past, and he may never be an 80-catch guy, as had been predicted when he was drafted in the first round in 2007. But Olsen doesn't seem worried. It's still football, and Martz has said that the 6-5, 255-pound former Miami Hurricane presents a receiving threat at tight end he never had in St. Louis.
"Sometimes you focus your offense around what you've got," Olsen said. "In the past, (Martz) has had great wide r
04/01/10 - TE Greg Olsen's days as the Bears' starter were rumored to be limited because of the nature of Mike Martz's offense. But head coach Lovie Smith indicated recently that Olsen will remain a major player in the offense, but he will have to improve his blocking.
"He's faster than most tight ends out there," Smith said of Olsen. "He can block the way most other tight ends can, but in the passing game he is a step ahead. He can be successful in this offense -- not can, will. He will be successful in this offense. He's a competitor. He's going to find a way. His role has increased as far as us going to him every year. I don't see that changing."
01/14/10 - TE Greg Olsen didn't have the break-out season that many envisioned when the Bears signed Cutler, but he did have a team-best 60 catches for 612 yards and a team-high eight receiving touchdowns. But he rarely stretched the field, which is supposed to be his strength, going through a five-game stretch where he had 18 catches for 110 yards, a 6.1-yard average.
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