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# Thanksgiving clash brings friendship of Lions’ Brock Wright, Bears’ Cole Kmet into focus
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Wright and Kmet were four-star tight ends who both signed to Notre Dame’s 2017 recruiting class, and their friendship goes back even further than that. …
From the moment they stepped on campus in South Bend, Wright and Kmet were attached at the hip. They share all the same interests and have similar tastes in movies, sports and food — all the ingredients for any long-lasting male friendship.
They had several classes together, including one called “The Meaning of Life,” where Wright, a graduate of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business, remembers being a studious member of the class trying to block out the noise created by Kmet and teammate Robert Hainsey, then an offensive lineman with the Fighting Irish (and one of Wright’s college roommates) who now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“They would just make me laugh the entire time in class, one of those where they’d just poke me in the back and I’d start laughing at inappropriate times,” Wright said.
Despite the shenanigans, it wasn’t long until Kmet’s family was Wright’s family and vice-versa. The players’ parents, too, have forged a deep bond after watching their sons play dozens of college games together.
This past summer, when the Lions charted out how to maintain their newfound contender status, they made clear Wright was part of that future. After the tight end signed a three-year, $12 million offer sheet with the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit matched it. …
…Returning to Detroit had several benefits. Wright is extremely familiar with the Lions’ offensive system and has a defined role in coordinator Ben Johnson’s offense. Back in the offseason, he also noted that Michigan real estate is slightly less expensive than it is in the Bay Area.
But one of the under-the-radar benefits of Wright deciding to stay in the NFC North is that he’ll get to play his old buddy twice a year for the foreseeable future.
