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Are you signing my bonus check this year? Maybe you're making my mortgage payment. Oh right, you're probably paying off my MD Anderson bills. Send me one of those receipts, and I'll answer any fucking question you want to your satisfaction. Otherwise, I'll state it again:
8-9 minutes is a long time to be laying on the ground if you had the wind knocked out of you. It's not however a long time to be down if you have a rib or sternum injury. I've personally had both.
I can't understand what's confusing you.

I am not responding to the time Burden was down. I understand your concern, though I think it's worrying a lot about something we don't know is a problem.

What I have been asking is how Bears' injuries have any bearing on the Burden injury/non-injury.
 
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“Ranking top 10 team fits for NFL rookies during 2025 season: Nick Emmanwori, Ashton Jeanty headline list

By Chris Trapasso
May 13, 2025

3. Colston Loveland, TE, Bears

Draft pick: Round 1 (No. 10 overall)

In 2023, second-round tight end Sam LaPorta went berserk with Ben Johnson as his offensive coordinator in Detroit: 86 catches, 889 yards, and 10 touchdowns. He was a core element to the Lions' attack. On LaPorta's more than 1,100 snaps, he was in-line 61% of the time, aligned in the slot 19.6%, played on the outside 17.7% and even took 17 snaps from in the backfield.

Johnson is going to move Loveland around the formation like a chess piece, and deploy motion at one of the highest rates in football to handpick advantageous matchups for the young, sleek and highly athletic tight end.”

 

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I enjoy reading articles like this prior to the start of the college football season. This one is from PFF.

@knoxville7 there is another pass rushing Vol on this list.

“2026 NFL Draft: 10 wild cards who could rise up boards

EDGE JOSHUA JOSEPHS, TENNESSEE

Josephs was part of a deep rotation of Tennessee defensive linemen, but he made the most of his 353 snaps. The junior led all edge defenders in the nation with a 91.4 run-defense grade in 2024 and was one of only three edges in America who earned 85-plus grades as both a run defender and as a pass-rusher.

Like his former teammate, James Pearce Jr., Josephs has an explosive get-off that allows him to blow up blockers before they even know what hit them. And like Pearce, he can become a first-round pick if he can keep up this level of play under a heavier workload next season.“

 

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I enjoy reading articles like this prior to the start of the college football season. This one is from PFF.

@knoxville7 there is another pass rushing Vol on this list.

“2026 NFL Draft: 10 wild cards who could rise up boards

EDGE JOSHUA JOSEPHS, TENNESSEE

Josephs was part of a deep rotation of Tennessee defensive linemen, but he made the most of his 353 snaps. The junior led all edge defenders in the nation with a 91.4 run-defense grade in 2024 and was one of only three edges in America who earned 85-plus grades as both a run defender and as a pass-rusher.

Like his former teammate, James Pearce Jr., Josephs has an explosive get-off that allows him to blow up blockers before they even know what hit them. And like Pearce, he can become a first-round pick if he can keep up this level of play under a heavier workload next season.“

He’s raw, but man is he talented. He was a backup last year that came in on the rotation of D line players(Tennessee believes in keeping their linemen fresh)

He showed flashes and if he puts it all together this year as a starter, he will absolutely be a first round pick
 

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This is a guy I’ll be watching closely next year. He had 4.5 sacks in the playoffs last year and seems to have the prototypical size that DA covets.


 

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high praise by Olson indeed and this seems to back up Ben's ex TE coach's viewpoint as well.
Just like the Gibbs pick, Ben must view Colston as an elite weapon which showed in Ben's draft day enthusiasm.
Based on LaPorta's success, I'm quite hopeful that Ben can mold Loveland into a top tier TE and be that elite weapon.
 

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