Colston Loveland Chicago Tight End talks Bears culture, embracing pressure, the Caleb Williams he knows, Ben Johnson’s energy, Green Bay rivalry, Harbaugh’s recruitment trip and reacts to being females' fan-favorite

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Ryan Clark** (0:29)
Colston Loveland was born and raised in Idaho. Not exactly where you'd expect to find a top 10 ultra-talented tight end, and certainly not one with R&B chops like this. After surgery following his junior season delayed the start he envisioned, the rookie showed why Chicago invested in him, becoming one of football's most productive tight ends over the second half of the 2025 season. We got into small town beginnings, Jim Harbaugh's recruiting visits to Idaho, Big Ten vs. the SEC and it's wild what he had to say about that, football's best rivalries, specifically Michigan vs. Ohio State and the Bears vs. the Packers, draft night with family and what it's like playing for Ben Johnson alongside star quarterback Caleb Williams. Loveland believes in himself because he believes in the work, and that should give Bears fans plenty to look forward to. The Pivot came back through Tennessee to chop it up with one of them ones, as Colston Loveland joined me and Chan on the Pivot Training Camp Tour. Oh, and by the way, congrats to the Pops, Freddie T.
You convince yourself you're not that small while you playing.

**Channing Crowder** (1:59)
Yeah, that's Tony Gonzalez.

**Colston Loveland** (2:03)
Hey, yeah, before you go to the game, Coach, mismatch, Coach, mismatch.

**Ryan Clark** (2:09)
Hey, you be talking battle bottom in your head before you go to the game? He really ain't that cold.

**Channing Crowder** (2:14)
All you do is push off.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:15)
Convince yourself.

**Channing Crowder** (2:17)
You got the hell on, didn't you?

**Ryan Clark** (2:19)
You got to convince yourself, dog.

**Colston Loveland** (2:20)
Get hands on right now.

**Ryan Clark** (2:22)
Well, man, Colston, man, welcome to the show. Colston Loveland, Chicago Bears, Titan, Channing Crowder, I'm Ryan Clark. Freddie T., congrats to your daughter on getting married. We miss you, brother. All right, man, I got to, I know, and you probably have answered this question, dog.
But I want to know how a rookie Titan from Idaho knows an R&B song that came out the same year he was born.

**Colston Loveland** (2:44)
That's a great question, man.
Shout out to my brother. My brother, he's three years older than me. He'd always be banging in high school and in college. I go up and see him at college. It was just like one of them songs. And when it came to the rookie talent shows, like, all right, something everyone knows, something I can go up there and sing with confidence and it'll be good. Yeah, it was a hit.

**Ryan Clark** (3:02)
But the big thing is, you got to make sure they sing it with you.

**Colston Loveland** (3:05)
Right, yep.

**Ryan Clark** (3:05)
You know what I'm saying? If they know it, they'll sing it with you. You ever heard what he did for his rookie show?

**Colston Loveland** (3:09)
What was that?

**Channing Crowder** (3:10)
I brought a stripper in for my head coach.

**Colston Loveland** (3:15)
How'd that go down?

**Channing Crowder** (3:17)
It went down.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:20)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Channing Crowder** (3:21)
I said, let me go last. I'm good. It ended the show.
Man, where'd you get your soul from? Because you got a little swag to you that I don't think Idaho brings to people.

**Colston Loveland** (3:33)
Yeah, man, I don't know. That's just like just my family, my friends, the way I was raised, I guess. I don't know.

**Channing Crowder** (3:39)
Definitely at Michigan. Was it Idaho or was it...

**Colston Loveland** (3:41)
I think it was a little bit of both, but once I got to Michigan, my boys got me right for sure.

**Channing Crowder** (3:45)
Yeah.

**Ryan Clark** (3:46)
Man, for you, though, you know, you talked about trying to put Idaho on the map in a different way. I think that was what... I think Vander Esch went. You had two guys go first round, one Chicago, one to Dallas before you. But even from a recruiting standpoint, I was disappointed in reading your story.
You chose Michigan, Ohio State, over going to the Iron Bowl when you were getting recruited?

**Colston Loveland** (4:10)
See, that's what we got to talk about that. I got an offer from Bama. But you know how they just throw offers around. No type of communication, really. Titan coach got fired a week later. I wasn't hearing anything, so I'm like, all right. Michigan was showing the most love, took a visit, and it was like Big Ten better than SEC. That's all.