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Bears Rookie Colston Loveland Talks Adjusting to NFL, Health Update _ NFL Training Camp Tour · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: A guy with a lot of expectations going into this season.
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  Speaker 1: A national championship champion by way of the University of
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  Speaker 1: Michigan Bears tight end Colson Lovelin kind enough to join
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  Speaker 1: us here now, rookie first round pick, Colston, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing? What's going on? The boss Pena? How
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  Speaker 3: you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Mike gol It good to see you have
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  Speaker 1: a seat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he called me, sir, I feel so old.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're getting the you're getting the unk treatment
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: I think, am I? Am? I really an unk?
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  Speaker 2: Am I that old?
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  Speaker 1: I think I saw the other day? And Colson, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you're the youngest person on this set now, so you
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  Speaker 1: can correct me if I'm wrong. I saw. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was Cooper Flagg say. Anyone born before nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: five is officially in unk territories.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you at them?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a I know, but yeah, how I feel
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  Speaker 4: about it? Yeah, i'd say that's cool. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm too young. I don't have it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have an opinion that all right, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: He's his UNK credentials not there, but your credentials coming
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  Speaker 1: into Bears camp. You're incredible again for Bears fans out there,
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  Speaker 1: your tenth overall pick tight end, drafted in the top ten.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't see it very often now feeling better.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw you at the combine, you were recovering
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  Speaker 1: from that ac joint injury. How's it feel to be
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  Speaker 1: back out here and working and feeling full speed physically.
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  Speaker 3: It's a blessing man, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's been a lot of work up to
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  Speaker 4: this point, a lot of rehab, but I got a
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  Speaker 4: great group around me, great people around me, great support
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  Speaker 4: in this building to finally get out there and play,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just exciting. It's a blessing. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: pray for times like these, so to be out here
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  Speaker 4: doing it, it's super cool.
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  Speaker 2: What's been since you're your health and everything. You had
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  Speaker 2: your first off your first NFL offseason. What's been the
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  Speaker 2: hardest thing to adjust from NFL? Or excuse me, the
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  Speaker 2: hardest thing to adjust from from college to NFL?
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  Speaker 4: I'd say, you know, and I guess we'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: the off season. And the off season you get a
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  Speaker 4: lot more time than you do in college. Actually, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have school, so maybe you get two months
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  Speaker 4: off or whatever it is. So it's just finding a
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  Speaker 4: routine and not getting complacent, you know, not going on
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  Speaker 4: a trip, not working out or something. So it's lucky
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  Speaker 4: enough I was I was able to stay here rehabbing,
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  Speaker 4: so I was just in the same routine, didn't skip
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  Speaker 4: the beat.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's just you know, knowing how to
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  Speaker 3: use your time, time management. Yeah, I'm working for your.
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  Speaker 4: Body, learning the playbook, the whole you know, the whole deal.
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  Speaker 4: Talking to your family that's important, you know, staying stay
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  Speaker 4: in tune with all that. So I'd say that that
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  Speaker 4: was a big transition for sure.
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  Speaker 2: What about the speed of everything, the speed from college
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  Speaker 2: to NFL.
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  Speaker 3: How's that? Yeah, that's definitely different too.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think in the box especially d ns
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  Speaker 4: are bigger, they're longer, they're stout on strong side, they're
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  Speaker 4: moving a lot faster, you know DB's, they're sticky. Just
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's the best obviously, So like, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a change. It's a change up for sure.
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  Speaker 4: But going against his defense especially, it's a blessing man
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  Speaker 4: because we're I mean, it's getting us better for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I like that. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Who's helping the most since you've gotten out here to camp.
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  Speaker 1: You had a great tight end room. Cole Combat one
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  Speaker 1: of your teammates in there as well, Ben Johnson certainly
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  Speaker 1: well known for his work with tight ends in Detroit. Here,
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  Speaker 1: who's giving you maybe the best advice since you've gotten
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  Speaker 1: here to Bears Camp.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of guys. I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to skip over anyone, but you know, we got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of pros in there, a lot of vets
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  Speaker 4: that handle their business the right way and do the
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  Speaker 4: thing the right way that I like.
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  Speaker 3: To just observe and watch.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, like Cole Durham Smith, Joel like the tight
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  Speaker 4: end room, just being around those guys, seeing how they move,
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  Speaker 4: asking them questions, talking to them, Coach Dre all the
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  Speaker 4: coach of staff with Coach Dre the tight ends coach
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  Speaker 4: as well, just picking their brains and just hearing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: their knowledge and being a sponge just kind of soaking
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  Speaker 4: it all in. I think that's been beneficial for me
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  Speaker 4: for sure. So I appreciate those guys.
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  Speaker 1: No, well, I listen, You've gotten a lot of high
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  Speaker 1: praise from a lot of people already, including another former
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  Speaker 1: Michigan great tight end, Jake, but who works over at
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten Network. He said, as soon as you
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  Speaker 1: saw you a practice, said you were different, and said
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  Speaker 1: you were gonna be an eighty reception receiver for the
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  Speaker 1: next decade of your career. What's it mean for you
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  Speaker 1: to hear that from a guy that wore the same
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  Speaker 1: colors you at that school and played the position at such.
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  Speaker 3: A high level.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that means a lot of shout out Jake Man,
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  Speaker 4: that's my guy. But I appreciate him and I do
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  Speaker 4: remember meeting him the first time, and he's always he's
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  Speaker 4: been like, you know, like a older brother, kind of
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  Speaker 4: just just from the dam met him, you know, giving
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  Speaker 4: me pointers at practice, mid practice, you know we're doing
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  Speaker 4: a special team speriit in Michigan. He's kind of just
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  Speaker 4: talking to me about this last player or whatever. So
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate him, and you know, he obviously would do it,
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  Speaker 4: did it before me. So being able to you know,
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  Speaker 4: learn from him and just yeah, it means a lot
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: No, Well, it's well deserved praise here and again, what
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  Speaker 1: you've done so far landed you as a top ten
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  Speaker 1: pick in the NFL draft and certainly has your line
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  Speaker 1: for a big season here in Chicago. Colston, we appreciate
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Man, Go rest up, go enjoy a
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  Speaker 1: nice shower. I'm sure it was a hot day out
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  Speaker 1: there hitting for you guys. We appreciate the time man.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you guys for having me us man. I appreciate it.