Breakout rookie tight end Colston Loveland came in at No. 61, adding another accolade after previously being named PFF\u2019s top rookie from the 2025 draft class.<\/p>\n
The recognition is well deserved. Despite a slow start to the season due to injury, the 10th overall pick out of Michigan finished with 58 receptions for 713 yards and six touchdowns. For the advanced-metrics crowd, Loveland posted the highest total receiving EPA for a rookie tight end since 2017, finishing with a strong 45.0 total.<\/p>\n
Loveland became a focal point of the Bears offense after Week 9, averaging 2.19 yards per route run<\/a>, the second-best mark among rookies in the NFL over that time frame. The stock is clearly still rising.<\/p>\n Also earning Top 101 honors was stalwart right tackle Darnell Wright, who landed at No. 62 overall. Wright anchored the right side of the offensive line while playing through a torn UCL for much of the season.<\/p>\n He finished with an 82.0 overall PFF grade, ranking 12th among all tackles, alongside an 85.6 run-blocking grade that ranked sixth at the position. Wright allowed just three sacks across 740 pass-blocking snaps, good for an elite 0.4% sack rate allowed.<\/p>\n Another former 10th overall pick, Wright was selected in 2023 out of Tennessee and has steadily pushed his way into the conversation among the league\u2019s elite tackles.<\/p>\n PFF will release the remaining Top 60 players over the next few days, with the final Top 20 set to be revealed on February 20. Keep your eyes on Windy City Gridiron for more Bears coverage and updates.<\/p>\n Gary Baugher Jr.<\/a> is a rookie contributor to WCG, bringing football insight backed by over 16 years of experience in organized football and more than 30 years as a passionate fan of the game. You can follow him on Twitter at @iamcogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breakout rookie tight end Colston Loveland came in at No. 61, adding another accolade after previously being named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,741,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-759567","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-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116089714491032736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759567","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=759567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}