{"id":32642,"date":"2025-05-08T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/32642\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:03:09","slug":"bears-te-colston-loveland-drew-lots-of-first-round-trade-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/32642\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears TE Colston Loveland Drew Lots Of First-Round Trade Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

In much of the leadup to the 2025 NFL Draft, there were two teams in the first round who were consistently connected to the class\u2019s two clear-cut first-round prospects: the Bears and the Colts. The majority of pre-draft predictions saw each team landing one of either Penn State\u2019s Tyler Warren<\/a> or Michigan\u2019s Colston Loveland<\/a>, and while that did happen, there was a high likelihood that it could have turned out differently. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Interestingly, Warren spent most of the pre-draft process clearly ranked as the TE1. A massive redshirt senior year saw Warren nab 104 receptions for 1,233 yards and eight touchdowns in 16 games. This was enough to overcome Loveland, who entered the 2024 season as the favorite to be the top tight end off the board following a promising, championship-winning 2023 campaign but only managed a pedestrian 56 catches for 582 yards and five touchdowns in 10 games last year.<\/p>\n

This made it a bit of a surprise when the Bears, who had long been projected to select Warren and leave Loveland for the Colts, selected Loveland over Warren. According to ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler, Loveland took back his TE1 status with some \u201cweek-of-draft buzz.\u201d The Bears weren\u2019t alone in their pursuit of Loveland, either. Per Fowler, multiple teams would have attempted to trade up for Loveland had he made it into the teens.<\/p>\n

It turns out, if Chicago had taken Warren instead of Loveland, the Colts might not have gotten their tight end. Loveland\u2019s traits and upside reportedly made him the top tight end in the eyes of many teams, and knowing the likelihood that Indianapolis was going to draft a tight end, teams who really wanted Loveland likely would have looked to trade up in front of the 14th overall pick to jump in front of the Colts.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Bears walked away with their TE1. The lack of a trade up when Warren was left on the board seems to indicate that those who were interested in a first-round tight end agreed that Warren wasn\u2019t worth the move up that they considered Loveland to be worthy of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In much of the leadup to the 2025 NFL Draft, there were two teams in the first round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[80,590,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,589],"class_list":{"0":"post-32642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-colston-loveland","10":"tag-colts","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-indianapolis","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-tyler-warren"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114469994784032383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}