In the past three games since Caleb Williams returned from his hamstring injury, Loveland has been dialed in with standout production. He has scored at least 11.5 PPR points in three games in a row against Atlanta, New England and Seattle, and he has at least seven targets in each game over that span, including two touchdowns. Tampa Bay has allowed two tight ends in the past three games to score at least 12 PPR points, and Loveland has top-five upside in this matchup at home.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Co-team-high catch total in win
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Loveland secured seven of nine targets for 65 yards and lost a fumble in the Bears' 34-17 win over the Seahawks on Monday night.
Loveland continued his upward trajectory by tying Luther Burden for the team lead in catches and targets, and he finished second in receiving yards to Rome Odunze. The second-year tight end's fourth-quarter fumble was costly for the moment, however, as Loveland fumbled at the Bears' 21-yard line following an eight-yard reception and the turnover ultimately led to the Seahawks' final touchdown of the contest. Nevertheless, Loveland now has at least six receptions in four of the last five games, including three straight, and he's drawn 21 targets over the last pair of contests alone heading into a Week 9 home matchup against the Buccaneers on Sunday night.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Cleared for Monday Night Football
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Loveland (neck) does not carry an injury designation into Monday's game against the Seahawks.
Loveland popped up on Friday's injury report as a limited practice participant due to a neck injury. However, the second-year tight end was able to practice without restriction Saturday and is good to go for Monday's game. His availability for Week 8 and beyond is particularly important given that Cole Kmet (knee, IR) is out for the rest of the 2026 season. Loveland has caught 25 passes (on 37 targets) for 241 yards and two touchdowns over his last five outings.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Limited Friday by neck issue
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Loveland was limited at Friday's practice due to a neck injury, Kevin Fishbain of The Athletic reports.
Loveland is making a midweek appearance on the Bears' Week 8 injury report, which may be cause for concern ahead of Monday's game at Seattle. In the end, though, Saturday's practice report will determine if he has a designation for that matchup.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Continues producing in Week 7 win
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Loveland secured seven of 12 targets for 69 yards and a touchdown during the Bears' 30-24 win over the Patriots on Thursday.
The second-year tight end continued to shake out of his early-season slump, putting together his second fantasy-friendly performance in a five-day span. Loveland led the Bears in receptions and targets on the night with figures that also qualified as season highs, and he added his second touchdown in five days on a 12-yard grab early in the third quarter. He has a 13-134-2 line in the last two games alone and should continue playing a key role in a Week 8 road showdown against the Seahawks on Monday night, Nov. 2.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Narrowly misses two-TD day
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Loveland brought in six of seven targets for 65 yards and a touchdown in the Bears' 31-23 win over the Falcons on Sunday.
Loveland certainly had a productive afternoon overall, but it could have been even bigger had he and Caleb Williams been able to connect on a late second-quarter pass in the left portion of the end zone. Prior to that, the talented tight end recorded a 14-yard scoring grab in tight coverage with 8:15 remaining in the first quarter to put the first points of the day on the board. Loveland's put together a pair of six-catch efforts in the last three games that serve as his most useful of the season thus far, and he'll look to build on his 19-175-1 line on 30 targets in a Week 7 home matchup against the Patriots on Thursday night.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Limited to two grabs in loss
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Loveland brought in two of five targets for 19 yards in the Bears' 31-7 loss to the Packers on Sunday.
The second-year tight end's quiet season continued on a difficult day for the Bears offense overall. Loveland was coming off a season-best six-catch, 57-yard effort against the Jets in Week 4, so Sunday's downturn was notable and marked third sub-20-yard tally in the first five games of the season. Loveland may have an opportunity to reap the benefit of having Caleb Williams back under center in a Week 6 road matchup against the Falcons next Sunday.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: TEs to start
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Loveland faced Green Bay three times in his final seven games last season, including the playoffs, and he scored at least 12.9 PPR points in two of those outings while averaging 14.2 PPR points over that span. He finally got on track in Week 4 against the Jets with six catches for 57 yards on nine targets, and hopefully that's a sign of things to come, even if it was with Tyson Bagent under center. Bagent will start again in Week 5, and he should continue to look for Loveland. He's back as a No. 1 Fantasy tight end in all leagues.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Draws nine targets from Bagent
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Loveland caught six of nine targets for 57 yards in Sunday's 23-12 win over the Jets.
Loveland led the team with nine targets, tying his total from the previous three games combined. The 2025 first-round pick has been trending in the right direction after a painfully slow start, increasing his yardage total from zero to three to 31 to 57 in the first four games of his second regular season. Considering that Loveland's best game of the season came Sunday in Tyson Bagent's first start of the campaign, Loveland probably wouldn't mind Bagent sticking in the starting role for Week 5 at Green Bay, though Caleb Williams (hamstring) will reprise the starting job once healthy.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: TEs to Sit
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Loveland had his best game of the season in Week 3 against Philadelphia with four catches for 31 yards on four targets, and hopefully that's a sign of things to come. He had one catch for 3 yards on five targets in his first two games against Carolina and Minnesota, so we'll take what we can get. Case Keenum got Loveland more involved than Caleb Williams (hamstring), and we'll see if Keenum starts again in Week 4 against the Jets. We might just have a Loveland problem all year now that Kalif Raymond is in the mix with Luther Burden III and Rome Odunze. The Jets are also No. 4 in fewest Fantasy points allowed to opposing tight ends and have limited Tucker Kraft and Sam LaPorta to a combined five catches for 59 yards and no touchdowns on seven targets in the past two games.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Slight uptick in production Monday
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Loveland secured all four targets for 31 yards in the Bears' 27-7 win over the Eagles on Monday night.
Head coach Ben Johnson appeared to make a concerted effort to get the ball into Loveland's hands Monday after the tight end's slow first two games, and that approach met with some success. While all three components of Loveland's receiving line qualified as season-high figures, the second-year pro's longest reception went for just 12 yards and he was well behind the wideout trio of Kalif Raymond, Luther Burden and Rome Odunze in receiving yards. Loveland's chemistry with fill-in signal-caller Case Keenum was encouraging, however, and the duo should have a chance to continue working together in Sunday's Week 4 home matchup against the Jets.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: TEs to Sit
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Please don't drop Loveland, but you also don't have to start him in Week 3 against the Eagles. Maybe Case Keenum or Tyson Bagent (concussion), whoever starts in place of Caleb Williams (hamstring), will unleash Loveland this week. But it's been a brutal start for everyone's favorite breakout tight end with one catch for 3 yards on five targets in two games against Carolina and Minnesota. And I don't want to trust him now with a backup quarterback. I'm hopeful Loveland will turn things around, but he's just a reserve for now.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Just one catch in Sunday's loss
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Loveland caught one of three targets for three yards in Sunday's 9-3 loss to the Vikings.
After failing to catch a pass at all in the Bears' opener, Loveland wasn't much better in Week 2, although wet and windy conditions at Soldier Field put a damper on any aerial offense. The second-year tight end has been one of the league's biggest busts in the early going given his preseason hype, and his chances of turning things around quickly likely won't improve if the hamstring injury that knocked Caleb Williams out of Sunday's contest proves to be serious. Loveland could be catching passes from Tyson Bagent instead in a Week 3 home tilt against the Eagles.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Shut out despite Week 1 offensive eruption
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Loveland failed to catch either of his two targets in Sunday's 59-37 win over the Panthers.
It was the highest-scoring Week 1 game in NFL history, but Loveland wasn't able to contribute as Caleb Williams instead frequently looked for Kalif Raymond (8-84-0 on nine targets) over the middle, and his only TD pass to a tight end went to Cole Kmet. It's a hugely disappointing start to the season for Loveland after his impressive finish to 2025, but better days will be ahead. He'll look to rebound in Week 2 at home against the Vikings.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: TEs to start
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Loveland just had a career game in Week 17 at San Francisco with six catches for 94 yards and a touchdown on 10 targets, and he scored 21.4 PPR points. He has now scored at least 10.1 PPR points in four of his past six games, and he should stay hot in Week 18 against the Lions. Two tight ends have scored at least 10.8 PPR points against Detroit in the past five games, and Loveland has top-five upside in all leagues in Week 18.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Listed as starter on depth chart
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Loveland is listed as a starting tight end along with Cole Kmet on the Bears' unofficial depth chart.
The 10th overall pick in the 2025 Draft, Loveland had a slow start to his rookie season, coming out of Week 8 with 11 catches total on the campaign and one DNP due to a hip injury. From Week 9 through the Bears' divisional-round loss to the Rams, though, he ran roughshod over opposing defenses, hauling in 59 of 89 targets for 790 yards and six touchdowns in 12 games. Loveland capped that stretch with four consecutive contests with double-digit targets, indicating he finished last season as QB Caleb Williams' top option in the passing game. While Loveland still has to contend with WRs Rome Odunze and Luther Burden (groin) for the attention of Williams, the tight end is poised to make a leap to the NFL's best at the position.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Makes first-down catch in preseason debut
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Loveland brought in one of three targets for 10 yards in the Bears' 27-9 preseason loss to the Bengals on Saturday.
The second-year tight end was the subject of plenty of Caleb Williams' attention on the Bears' opening possession, but Loveland was able to corral only one of the three passes that went his way. Nevertheless, the target volume relative to playing time was an encouraging sign for Loveland's outlook heading into the regular season, when he'll look to build on the 58-713-6 line on 82 targets he compiled across 16 regular-season games during his 2025 rookie campaign.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Idle for preseason opener
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Loveland did not play in the Bears' 34-10 preseason win over the Browns on Saturday.
Loveland and other key skill players -- including Luther Burden (groin), Rome Odunze and Cole Kmet -- sat out of Saturday's game, allowing more snaps at tight end to go to Sam Roush and Stephen Carlson. Loveland, a first-round selection of the Bears in the 2025 NFL Draft, saw his playing time and production increase over the course of his rookie season, highlighted by his performance in Chicago's NFC wild-card win over Green Bay, when he caught eight passes (on 15 targets) for 137 yards. With DJ Moore (lower body) now in Buffalo, Loveland is poised to be an even bigger contributor to the Bears offense in 2026, with Odunze, Burden and Kmet being his main competition for passes from quarterback Caleb Williams.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Ready to build on strong finish
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Loveland (concussion) said he "feel(s) very good" and is embracing a larger role heading into his second NFL season, Grant Gordon of NFL.com reports.
Loveland's role expanded significantly down the stretch in his rookie season, as the 2025 first-round pick caught 28 of 48 targets for 378 yards and two touchdowns over Chicago's last four games, two of which came in the playoffs. He suffered a concussion late in the Bears' NFC divisional-round loss to the Rams, but Loveland's comments indicate he has recovered from that injury and is ready to build on his momentum from last season in a Bears offense that traded away wide receiver DJ Moore earlier this offseason. Moore finished second on the team in receiving yards behind Loveland during the 2025 regular season.
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Bears' Colston Loveland: Suffers concussion late in loss
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Loveland suffered a concussion in Sunday night's 20-17 overtime loss to the Rams in the NFC divisional round, Nicholas Moreano of Marquee Sports Network reports.
Loveland reeled in an 18-yard pass in the late moments of the fourth quarter, but he took a blow to the head in the process, and he exited the game. After the loss, head coach Ben Johnson confirmed that the tight end suffered a concussion on the hit. Loveland still led the Bears with 56 receiving yards, reeling in four of a team-high 10 targets in the defeat. Following an impressive regular season, the rookie tight end caught 12 of 25 targets for 193 yards over Chicago's two postseason contests.
