{"id":399057,"date":"2025-09-26T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/399057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:44:11","slug":"james-franklin-trolls-chicago-bears-for-taking-colston-loveland-over-tyler-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/399057\/","title":{"rendered":"James Franklin trolls Chicago Bears for taking Colston Loveland over Tyler Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State\u2019s<\/a> Tyler Warren<\/a> and Michigan\u2019s<\/a> Colston Loveland<\/a> were the top two projected tight ends for the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a>. Now, three games into their respective rookie seasons as pros, James Franklin<\/a> still can\u2019t believe a team took the latter over the former.<\/p>\n

Appearing on \u2018The Pat McAfee Show\u2019<\/a> on Friday, Franklin was discussing several players from last season\u2019s team who went on to the NFL<\/a>. That includes Warren \u2014 the Indianapolis Colts\u2019 pick at No. 14 \u2014 who was picked after Loveland, which Franklin doesn\u2019t understand still.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to bring it up, but another team took another tight end in front of him. Somebody took another tight end in front of that guy,\u201d Franklin said in obviously jabbing at the Bears. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through three games of their respective rookie years, Warren has been more utilized and productive for the Colts than Loveland has been for the Bears. Warren has 14 catches on 21 targets for 193 yards, averaging 64.3 per game, as he has been a top-five tight end statistically, with the highest receiving yardage average, second-most total receiving yards at the position, through Week 3. <\/p>\n

Loveland then has three catches on six targets for 43 yards, posting 14.3 per game. He\u2019s not even the leading tight end on the roster, with Cole Kmet<\/a> having four receptions on seven targets for 70 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

The seasons have also begun a little differently for each franchise they\u2019re with, although each has had a Top 10 scoring offense so far in the National Football League. Indianapolis is undefeated at 3-0 while Chicago is 1-2 with a pair of divisional losses already before getting their first win this past weekend against Dallas.<\/p>\n

Warren was also more productive in his final collegiate season in Happy Valley than Loveland was in Ann Arbor, with both being their respective team\u2019s leading receivers by far. Warren had 104 catches for 1,233 yards and eight touchdowns, with him earning votes for the Heisman Trophy while the Nittany Lions made the Big Ten Championship and the CFP<\/a>. Loveland then put up 56 catches for 582 yards and five touchdowns for the Wolverines.<\/p>\n

Loveland going in the draft before Warren wasn\u2019t too much of a surprise to some, but Warren was often always mocked ahead of him in the pre-draft process. Still, Franklin is obviously going to defend his former player, especially now with his pro career starting as well as it has so far in Indy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State\u2019s Tyler Warren and Michigan\u2019s Colston Loveland were the top two projected tight ends for the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,69130,7,18605,6,15435],"class_list":{"0":"post-399057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-colston-loveland-22-gooding","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-james-franklin-91-neshaminy","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-tyler-warren-20-atlee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115272080872157187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399057","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=399057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}