{"id":725688,"date":"2026-02-03T07:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/725688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:16:29","slug":"chicago-bears-rookie-of-the-year-is-colston-loveland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/725688\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears\u2019 Rookie of the Year is Colston Loveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier today, the Chicago Bears named tight end Colston Loveland, the tenth overall selection in the 2025 NFL Draft, as their Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In any other year, the Bears could have honored wide receiver Luther Burden or running back Kyle Monangai, but this year, it was the dynamic Loveland who took home the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Loveland\u2019s 58 receptions and 713 receiving yards led the Bears, and his six touchdown catches tied for the team lead. The last time a rookie tight end led the Bears in catches and yards was Mike Ditka in 1961.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His 713 receiving yards are the ninth most ever by a Bears tight end in franchise history, and 58 receptions are tied for the eighth most by a tight end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He had a slow start to the regular season after missing the offseason training activities and minicamps while recovering from shoulder surgery. He also missed Week 4 with a hip injury, but as the season wore on, his all-around skill set started to shine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His breakout performance came in Week 9 when his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/chicago-bears-events-nfl\/102752\/chicago-bears-now-you-can-wear-the-caleb-willians-to-colston-loveland-game-winner-sale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">58-yard touchdown<\/a> reception gave the Bears the lead over the Cincinnati Bengals with just 17 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From that game on \u2014 12 games, including the two in the postseason \u2014 he had 59 receptions, 790 yards, and 6 TDs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out a few Loveland highlights from 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, the Chicago Bears named tight end Colston Loveland, the tenth overall selection in the 2025 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725689,"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-725688","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\/116005478027440809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725688","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=725688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}