Earth-boring tools with extended cutting features and related methods

An earth-boring rotary drill bit, comprising:

• a bit body;
• cutting features extending outwardly from the bit body and defining a plurality of fluid channels extending over the bit body between the cutting features, the cutting features carrying a plurality of elongated cutting posts received within receptacles formed within the cutting features, the cutting features extending from an outer surface of the bit body within the fluid channels by an average distance of at least 2.54 centimeters in a nose region of the earth-boring rotary drill bit, elongated cutting posts of the plurality of elongated cutting posts within the nose region of the earth-boring rotary drill bit having longitudinal lengths in excess of the average distance and extending into the bit body to an axial location beyond an axial location of the outer surface of the bit body along a longitudinal axis of the earth-boring rotary tool;
• and
• at least one metal blank extending from a crown portion of the bit body, the at least one metal blank being disposed within and surrounded by a respective cutting feature and having at least one integral extension that extends from a nose region of the cutting feature into a cone region of the respective cutting feature.