{"id":710692,"date":"2026-01-28T05:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:10:14","slug":"the-chicago-bears-2025-trio-of-rookies-was-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710692\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears 2025 Trio of Rookies Was Historic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier today, our guy Aaron Leming gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/chicago-bears-draft\/110004\/chicago-bears-2025-season-in-review-check-up-draft-class-rookie-colston-loveland-ozzy-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">detailed breakdown<\/a> of the performance of the entire Chicago Bears 2025 Draft Class, and it\u2019s safe to say that this was general manager Ryan Poles\u2019 best one yet. At the top of the class were his first two selections, Colston Loveland (10th overall) and Luther Burden III (39th), but his final pick in the seventh round, Kyle Monangai (233rd), also made a big impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This trio not only helped the Bears take the North, but they did something together that hasn\u2019t been done since at least 1966.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Only team in the Super Bowl era to have three rookies with 650+ scrimmage yards each<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Kyle Monangai &#8211; 947 yds<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Colston Loveland &#8211; 711 yds<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Luther Burden III &#8211; 689 yds<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Monangai\u2019s 947 scrimmage yards were the sixth-most among all 2025 rookies, and his 783 rushing yards were the fifth most of all first-year players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Loveland\u2019s 711 receiving yards and 58 receptions were both the fifth most of this rookie class, his 6 receiving touchdowns tied for the second most in the class, and his 711 yards from scrimmage were the thirteenth most of all rookies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Burden\u2019s 689 scrimmage yards were right behind Loveland in 14th place, and his 652 receiving yards were the seventh most in the rookie class, while his 47 receptions were the ninth most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How much better do you think these three will be in 2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, our guy Aaron Leming gave a detailed breakdown of the performance of the entire Chicago Bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,741,742,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-710692","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-chicago-bears-news","12":"tag-chicago-bears-roster","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115971006437622782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710692","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=710692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}