(6) Loveland is eager to remain in Chicago following rookie minicamp and begin working with fellow tight end Cole Kmet and other veteran teammates.<\/p>\n
“I’m super excited just to meet him,” Loveland said. “I’ve heard great things about all the vets. You can tell it’s a very tight culture here and everyone is super nice. I’m just excited to learn from him. They’ve been in the league for a long time, so just little tips and tricks that they’ve got. And even with the playbook, just learning everything from them and just watching, emulating.”<\/p>\n
(7) The chip on receiver Luther Burden III’s shoulder that stems from not being drafted in the first round is not a temporary thing.<\/p>\n
“No, that’s staying with me forever,” said the Missouri product, who was selected by the Bears in the second round at No. 39. “Everybody who passed up on me has got to pay.”<\/p>\n
(8) Burden liked what he heard from Lions receiver and former high school teammate Jameson Williams about playing for Johnson.<\/p>\n
“He told me I’m going to love it, so let’s go,” Burden said.<\/p>\n
As Lions offensive coordinator the last three years, Johnson worked closely with Williams, who was selected by Detroit in 2022 with the 12th pick in the first round.<\/p>\n
Burden and Williams played one season together at Cardinal Ritter College Prep in St. Louis.<\/p>\n
“He was a senior, I was a freshman,” Burden said. “We got a great relationship throughout my career because he was someone I can ask for advice if I needed it, and we always work out together and stuff like that.”<\/p>\n
(9) Trapilo is confident that he can play both left and right tackle.<\/p>\n
The 6-8, 316-pounder started all 34 games he played at Boston College the past three seasons, lining up at left tackle in 2022 and right tackle in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
He switched sides after Matt Applebaum took over as offensive line coach and wanted to put Trapilo next to right guard Christian Mahogany, who returned after missing the 2022 season with a torn ACL.<\/p>\n
“Throughout college I knew I wanted to play in the NFL, so you have to be versatile,” Trapilo said. “That’s the quickest way to get on the field. So after practice, even though I was a right tackle the last two years in college, [I was] working left, making sure that it’s still smooth, that it still feels good.<\/p>\n
“Especially after the season, I was working even more left than right just because [I was] catching up for lost time. It felt good today.”<\/p>\n
10) Many of the rookies were transported to the practice fields for Friday’s workouts via golf carts, but Shemar Turner was not among them.<\/p>\n
The second-round defensive tackle from Texas A&M wanted to take a moment to reflect on such a momentous occasion in his life.<\/p>\n
“Oh man, it was surreal,” Turner said of his first NFL practice. “Instead of taking the cart to the field today, I walked and just tried to soak it in. [It’s a] dream come true. [I’m] finally getting to do what I’ve been wanting to do for my whole life.”<\/p>\n
Asked what he was thinking about on the way to practice, he said: “Shoot, everything. Dream job, bro. I get to do this every day now until I get ready to stop. Talked to my brother, talked to God. Had a good time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(6) Loveland is eager to remain in Chicago following rookie minicamp and begin working with fellow tight end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1035,443,692,391,2493,590,7,446,6,681,1163],"class_list":{"0":"post-38692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-ben-johnson","10":"tag-centerpiece","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bears","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-colston-loveland","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-luther-burden-iii","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ozzy-trapilo","19":"tag-shemar-turner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114482845271061784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38692","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=38692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}