{"id":839865,"date":"2026-03-28T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:01:21","slug":"chicago-bears-fans-expect-a-big-2026-from-colston-loveland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839865\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears fans expect a big 2026 from Colston Loveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">We asked you guys earlier this week to make your best guess for who will lead the 2026 Chicago Bears in receptions, and nearly half of you went with tight end Colston Loveland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Loveland led the Bears in catches as a rookie in 2025, and if he does it again, he\u2019ll be the first Chicago tight end to do it in consecutive years since Mike Ditka did it three straight from 1961-1963.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rome Odunze and Luther Burden III were a close 2nd and 3rd in the poll, just like they were close last season with 44 and 47 receptions, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/43914f3a7f653e405e53104fdc134cea.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If you\u2019re really feeling frisky, our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FanDuel Sportsbook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;FanDuel Sportsbook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a> have +10,000 odds for Loveland to win the NFL Offensive Player of the Year award in 2026. Those are the same odds they give Odunze, but they have Burden at +8,000, which is tied with D\u2019Andre Swift for the lowest among the Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What about Caleb, you ask?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He\u2019s at +12,500 to win Offensive Player of the Year, which is traditionally not a QB award, but you can get him to win the NFL MVP award at +1,600, which is tied for 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But back to Loveland, who doesn\u2019t turn 22 until next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In his two playoff games last season, he had 12 receptions for 193 yards, which set a new rookie tight end receiving yards record in a single postseason in NFL history. He broke the previous record set by Detroit\u2019s Sam LaPorta, who had 176 yards on 21 catches in three playoff games in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Loveland was still rehabbing last offseason following January shoulder surgery, so he wasn\u2019t on the field for Chicago\u2019s OTAs and minicamps, but this year, he should be there for everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We asked you guys earlier this week to make your best guess for who will lead the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,590,146,7,1682,58,446,40890,6,2495,7472],"class_list":{"0":"post-839865","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","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-los-angeles-rams","17":"tag-luther-burden-iii","18":"tag-mike-ditka","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-rome-odunze","21":"tag-sam-laporta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116309295842511246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839865","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=839865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}