[Ian Rapaport] Every year, there is a player who gets really hot really late, one that teams are scrambling to trade up for. Last night, that player was #Michigan TE Colston Loveland. When the #Bears picked him at No. 10, the calls in the early teens quieted. There wasn’t a trade until 25.

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  1. Okay, I have fully bought in on Loveland. Rams & Chargers were also apparently VERY high on him too

  3. I’m hyped.

    NFL guys approve fans don’t, this make me confident

    He is a multiplier (shout out flus). The pick enables BJ to run his scheme. This pick is a benefit to the overall offense not just Caleb.

    Want the Ben Johnson experience? This is his pick

  4. Nope, nope, nope. I refuse to listen to anybody or anything other than my own opinion that was carefully crafted over less than a dozen hours of reading and feeling out the vibes of my brilliant intuition. Fire Ben Johnson before the 2nd round begins, lest we implode in our incompetence.

  6. The amount of low IQ rage last night on this sub was shocking, even for Reddit standards.

  8. Honestly this is screaming the Jahmyr Gibbs pick. Everyone was flabbergasted when Detroit took him at 12 and then it came out afterwards that a ton of teams were praying for him to fall to them

  9. I don’t hate the player. I actually really like him. I just don’t love the “need” for the Bears. If teams were indeed clamoring for Loveland, I would have preferred a trade back and to beef up the trenches.

    That said, I know nothing. Happy to be proven wrong

  10. I’m convinced that about 30% of the fanbase just wants to be miserable. No matter what the Bears do, they are gonna bitch about it.

  12. Never seen him play, but I read a mock draft from this random dude on twitter 5 min before the draft, and my expert opinion is that he’s a total bust. Fire Poles/burn down Soldier Field

  13. I don’t love that he just had shoulder surgery and will miss OTA’s. But I’m going to trust that it’s nothing major and he’ll be rolling in training camp and for the season.

  14. I think staying put was the right decision. This is a weird draft year where there aren’t really many potential superstars in the way there have been in years past, and the mid to late rounds are uncharacteristically deep with RBs and linemen for the bears to help fill needs and add valuable depth. Like much of the fanbase, I was clamoring for Jeanty to fall to 10, but there’s no use in selling out for him in a draft this deep with quality RB talent.

    I’ll be honest and say I don’t know much, if anything, about Loveland to form an educated opinion on whether he was a good pick at 10 or would’ve been available later, but I do enjoy the Sam LaPorta comparisons. I’m trusting the process here and seeing what happens.

  15. There were other suitors it seems so I’m guessing BJ and the Bears really like Loveland. It sounds like they could’ve traded back if they did not like Loveland. The board fell awful for us getting a lineman so even if we want to talk value for position….i still like the player a lot.

    With what was available at 10 I think Loveland and Walker were the two best available.

  16. This sub, bears twitter, bears facebook, and tons of bears content creators were absolutely hilarious yesterday. We literally just hired the top offensive minded coach in the league after having a putrid offense for almost a decade and everyone in unison screamed like wild banshees that we are a horrible organization that made the wrong pick 😂

    BJ “reached” for Sam Laporta and Jahmyr Gibbs… they are now 2 of the most explosive offensive players in the league. I know we’ve been burned in the past but a lot of fans need to sit the fuck down and see how the season plays out

  17. As an OSU fan, I can safely say we made the right pick. This dude killed us for years with JJ Mchandoff (fuck the Vikings) as his QB.

  19. Anyone who’s upset about Ben Johnson getting another elite weapon for this offense needs to get their head checked.

  20. I’m sure Loveland is as fine of a prospect as any other. I just feel like they would have been better served with a lineman on either side of the ball considering the significant drop in quality moving forward.

    Oh well, at least they didn’t trade up and can shore up the areas of need tonight.

  22. I clearly remember me and a couple friends saying “What? LaPorta before Mayer??” while watching the draft a couple years ago lol

    I trust Johnson knows how to scout a TE.

  25. The draft process is so stupid. There’s this arbitrary consensus that’s built that people assign value to, and when it’s not followed exactly, everybody screams about how bad of a pick it was.

    Was I expecting Loveland? Obviously not, but that doesn’t mean it’s a *bad* pick — it’s simply just unexpected. BJ got his guy — let’s assign grades on the trades after they play football.

  26. The truth is we read articles like this about every “surprising” (to the media/us) pick from the Bears. Whether they work out or not. Remember shae mcclellin and how it was seattle or minny or some such team that was about to swoop in and take him cause he was such a stud so we just had to draft him? We saw the same articles about what a hidden gem he was.

    At the end of the day none of us know how it will turn out. It’s a bit of a headscratcher, but we gotta trust BJ knows what he is doing. If he’s no good then it’s another nail in Poles coffin as GM. In the meantime all we can do is hope.

  27. I wanted OT help. Membou mostly plays RT and we sre fine there. Campbell is the best prospect but might end up as a guard. Banks was the only other guy worth the pick and he went at 9.

    Loveland can contribute in the blocking game more than anyone else on the board at that time. Booker isn’t good enough for 10 and I wanted him to fall to the 2nd, but our interior has a solid temporary solution.

    Loveland was a good run blocker too with Michigan. Kind of have to be in a Jim Harbaugh offense.

    BJ will run a fuck ton of 12 personnel with this group. Kmet and Loveland are both decent blockers in run and pass. Teams will never know what Loveland and Kmet will be doing. Both guys can stay home. Both guys can chip. Both guys can block and release. Both guys can just run a route. Every single snap the defense won’t know how to defend both guys.

    And it’s Ben Fucking Johnson. He’s gonna have our TEs doing some trickery too.

  29. I mean, I was excited that BJ came here to run the offense, so now I’m supposed to be upset because he got what he wanted but Reddit fans suddenly knew better?

  30. Well someone should tell all of these teams, their GMs, their scouts, etc., that the Bears subreddit knows better than they do, and they are wrong

  31. I mean he was the best player on a national championship team. Just go watch the dude. He’s the best route runner in the entire draft. Like including the wide receivers

  32. I kinda figured we tried to trade back and couldn’t find any suitors. Seemed like nobody was willing to move up. All the guys worth trading for were already taken. I’m just happy there bears didn’t overpay and move up. They stayed pat, couldn’t move back, and just decided to draft a guy their new HC wanted. I’m on board with that. I genuinely think it just came down to being the only option given how the board shaked out

  33. I think Loveland is gonna ball out and become a fan favorite. But people just don’t know yet.

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