TE Colston Loveland led the Bears with 12 targets and 7 catches in Thursday night’s win over the Patriots, finishing with 69 yards and a bruising 12-yard catch-and-run TD in the third quarter. Loveland’s night should have been even bigger, but he committed a pair of uncharacteristic drops. He had just 5 total drops on a 3.8% drop rate across his first 24 games, including playoffs.
2026 Fantasy Football Impact: Top-5 TE Rest Of Way
Congrats if you weathered Loveland’s slow start or, better yet, bought low during that stretch. He looks like a top-5 fantasy TE going forward.
Over his last 4 games, Loveland has:
- Run a route on 71.2% of Chicago’s pass plays
- Averaged 8.3 targets per game on a 23.1% share
- Scored 13.6 PPR points per game
The targets per game, target share, and PPR points per game would all rank top-7 among TEs on the season. And Loveland has been even better with QB Caleb Williams back the past 2 weeks, averaging 16.2 PPR points on a 27.5% target share.
The remaining schedule is the cherry on top. Loveland gets a tough Week 8 matchup against the Seahawks’ third-ranked TE defense. But from Week 9 on, he gets the third-easiest TE schedule.
Loveland is primed to be a fantasy difference-maker the rest of the way.
