If this keeps up, whoever wins the Bears’ kicking job is going to be a nervous wreck by the opener

I don’t want to say that the Bears are making a mountain out of a molehill with their kicking situation. The position obviously is important.

But I can’t shake the feeling that they’re making a mountain range out of a mountain.

Coach Matt Nagy has brought in a chorus line of kickers this offseason and subjected it to the kind of duress normally reserved for CIA black sites. All this because Cody Parkey was bad. OK, really bad.

During a minicamp workout Tuesday, Nagy was frustrated that none of the three kickers still around could make a 42-yard field goal while players, coaches and about 25 alumni watched. No word on whether the receptionists at Halas Hall could break away from their duties and add to the pressure put on the kickers. On Wednesday, Nagy cut the wonderfully named Chris Blewitt, which was probably a bigger blow to columnists and headline writers than it was to Blewitt and his immediate family.

That leaves Eddy Piñeiro and Elliott Fry to try to survive a very literal boot camp.

By the way, it’s not even mid-June yet.

Whoever “wins’’ the right to be the Bears kicker in 2019 will have so much attention on him that it’ll be a miracle if he can uncurl himself from the fetal position on game day. I can’t recall any position getting this much scrutiny from coaches and players during practices.

General manager Ryan Pace brought in eight kickers during a rookie minicamp in May, and Nagy put them through a very public competition with very public consequences. When one kicker missed a 48-yard attempt, a group of players had to do 25 up-downs as punishment. The kicker did not. Talk about shaming.

There was more of the same during Tuesday’s minicamp practice, when the three remaining kickers got a group stink eye after each missed his attempt.

The “diamonds are formed under pressure’’ maxim states that greatness comes from those able to survive extreme challenges and difficulties. That’s what Nagy’s pushing here. He’s hoping that a kick in front of 80,000 Packers fans in December will feel no different than a kick during a stressful June minicamp at Halas Hall.

The opposite of the diamond maxim would be what I’d call the cremation-urn theory. It states that when the Bears kicker lines up a 43-yarder at Lambeau Field, a gust of wind will send his ashy remains wide right, thanks to the pressure that was heaped on him since the offseason.

Kickers are different. They’re nothing like their teammates, who sweat and bleed and try to kill players on the other team. They don’t look a thing like their teammates. They don’t get injured like their teammates.

I wonder if some of that has seeped into Nagy’s kicking competition. This will teach these football impostors! Can you imagine a coach gathering his team to watch two quarterbacks battle for a job? It would never happen the way it’s happening with the kickers.

But that’s the effect Parkey is having on the Bears, even though he’s long gone. The man had a strange attraction to metal objects, and it reached critical mass in the wild-card round against the Eagles, when he hit an upright and a crossbar on a 43-yard field-goal attempt that would have won the game. The term “double-doink’’ was permanently added to the Chicago sports lexicon.

That will be pressure enough on whomever the Bears kicker is come the opener Sept. 5. The question is whether the focus Nagy is putting on kickers now will positively or negatively affect the winner when the season opens. I’m leaning toward the negative (breaking!). The kicking battle doesn’t feel like a bonding exercise. It feels like a reminder to everybody else on the team that kickers aren’t really one of them, which, again, they’re not. But some things don’t need reinforcing.

(Please don’t send me your laments about Robbie Gould’s release in 2016. That’s ancient history. The Bears’ all-time leading scorer, now the property of the 49ers, doesn’t look like he’ll be allowed to come back. You’re probably better off talking about the possibility of Kevin Butler’s return.)

The Bears have Super Bowl aspirations. If you didn’t know that, you certainly do now. The franchise’s recent 100^th-season fan celebration pounded that message home, with members of the 1985 Bears letting it be known that the 2019 Bears might be worthy of carrying the baton.

The team needs a kicker. Everybody knows that. The Bears don’t seem willing to pay money for a proven veteran, likely because they still owe Parkey $3.5 million. But whatever they do, they should lighten up.

Even kickers have feelings, you know.