{"id":37763,"date":"2025-05-10T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37763\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T00:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:53:12","slug":"bears-luther-burden-sends-message-to-teams-after-nfl-draft-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37763\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Luther Burden sends message to teams after NFL draft slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/83388176007-usatsi-24776363.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former QB Alex Smith shares advice for Shedeur Sanders<\/p>\n<p>Former NFL quarterback Alex Smith shares advice for Shedeur Sanders after his shocking fall in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Seriously<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" data-autotag=\"69c69e75-f807-4542-90d2-619e6d4a23b1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Bears<\/a> wide receiver Luther Burden III has a message for all the teams who passed on him during <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s staying with me forever,&#8221; Burden told the media on Friday. &#8220;Everybody who passed up on me got to pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bears selected Burden in the second round with the 39th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, the Bears also passed on Burden in the first round when they used the 10th overall pick on tight end Colston Loveland.<\/p>\n<p>Four other wide receivers were drafted ahead of Burden. Going into his final college football season, Burden was considered a top NFL prospect after he tallied 86 catches and 1,212 receiving yards in 2023. However, subpar quarterback play contributed to a decline in production (61 catches, 676 yards).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I need is me to believe in myself. I don\u2019t need everybody else to believe in me. As long as I believe in myself, I\u2019m gonna handle business,\u201d Burden said. \u201cI had this attitude since I\u2019ve been playing sports. It\u2019s just in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burden has a chance to be an immediate contributor in Chicago as a slot receiver. He played 462 snaps in the slot during his final season at Missouri. The Bears have a hole at slot receiver after letting veteran wideout Keenan Allen walk in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Follow USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Tyler Dragon on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTylerDragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@TheTylerDragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former QB Alex Smith shares advice for Shedeur Sanders Former NFL quarterback Alex Smith shares advice for Shedeur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,374,692,391,7,248,267,246,88,6,15,245,264,529,9,266,24,528,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-37763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bears","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-national","15":"tag-national-sports","16":"tag-neutral","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-draft","20":"tag-overall","21":"tag-overall-neutral","22":"tag-point","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sports-news","25":"tag-the","26":"tag-to","27":"tag-to-the-point"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114480808388901963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763","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=37763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}