More obstacles to come to Luther Burden after a difficult climb to bears

It was one of the best answers given to a question during the draft of the NFL in Halas Hall and fell by the way because of the moment when it occurred.

Luther Burden III had fallen from the first round after reading and heard about his problems of “character” in the last week before the project.

He had been amazed by all this During the night, the Bears selected it 2, 39th in total, after so much hope of going somewhere in Tour 1.

“It’s about me now, but it’s still at the back of my head,” Burden told Halas Hall on the last day of the draft. “The teams have chosen other people above me.

“So I will see them.”

The chip is firmly planted on her shoulder, as if it were so often for players who are written later that they had not planned it.

“I think that whenever you are in a situation where you have the impression of having passed, by certain teams for certain reasons, I think that the chip grows on your shoulder and that it ignites a different type of ethics of work, a different type of mentality,” said Bears Gm Ryan Pomes. “The main thing is to capture this and to make sure that it continues. It is not only, you know, one thing of the flash type in the pan. Can we regularly put this time, this effort, which works, to be at a very high level?”

The thing that the posts like is that Burden will have to be in this way where he will not see a lot of playing time.

“The beautiful thing about our situation, you are entering, you must compete,” said the posts. “There are guys in this room that played either, you know, Rome (Odunze) leaving his year last year at DJ (Moore) who played for a long time for (Devin) Duvernay to all.

“As, you have to bring it if you want time on the field. And again, I think that if I cannot emphasize something else, I will come back to Ben (Johnson) to take care of being comfortable. There are guys who will have to grind a little stronger than probably before. So I think it will push everyone to be really good.”

The loss of other teams in this case could be the gain of the Bears.

“I was super happy, I fell into a big situation,” said Burden. “I felt blessed. I am super excited to be part of this organization and I am happy that they believe in me.”

Why was not specifically stated, although there have been several summary situations better described as less than ideal but barely destructive.

Some teams could be concerned about the drop in Burden in the sockets and yards by 86 receptions, 1,212 yards and nine affected in 2023 at 61 catches and 676 yards with six affected in 2024.

But the Quarterrière du Missouri, Brady Cook, experienced a sharp drop in production of 66.1% to 62.6% and 3,317 yards at 2,535 yards. He succeeded in 21 TD passes in 2022 and 11 in 2023 when the offensive line had difficulties.

Burden also underwent an injury and illness during this season, although no situation has been considered serious.

There had been questions for the Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz, before Burden’s character project.

Missouri Tigers on Joey Van Zummeren of Si Drinkwitz reported this during an interview on the Rich Eisen Show in early April.

“There are these calm criticisms here who say he has a character problem,” Drinkwitz told Eisen. “My answer to everyone was, he was never arrested, he never had a public incident in our university, he was never once at my office to complain about his role.

“He was a great teammate.”

Part of this may have come from the match against Auburn in his first Missouri season when he had no contact. He suffered the mention of the Missouri of his Instagram account, according to Zummeren.

It was three years ago, however, and Burden was an 18 -year -old.

The burden had two Sanctions as a delicacy as a gluttony in the three games of the other against the Boston College during a Missouri victory when he made six catches for 117 yards and a touch in 2024. A Boston College player fired the Burden Bouche protector on a penalty after incompletion, therefore Barden. The second guy obtained the penalty, as usual.

A few games later, Burden ran towards the touch and while limits threw the ball into the face of a Boston College player for 15 meters more. This led the burden to be scolded by Drinkwitz, according to Zummeren’s report.

“I just have to cut the nonsense,” Burde admitted to journalists thereafter. “Stay composed. I don’t want to put my team anymore in this position. So I’m happy to learn from it.”

Bears fans have seen this type of quick and reckless response of their team receivers after being tagged or harassed in one way or another.

The former Bears recipient, Javon Wims, in 2020, was engaged in a fight to Soldier Field by the defensive rear of the Holy Chauncey Gardner-Johnson. Then his teammate Anthony Miller was taken in the same situation in the playoffs and was ejected from a match when the Bears were already without the receiver Darnell Mooney due to an injury.

The incident ended Miller’s Bears’ career. He had been a wide receiver of the second volatile round slot and after the Bears cut him, he has since made 13 receptions with three other teams.

This type of mental and foreign chicane is common in a league where defensive players are looking for any advantage possible to reject explosive offenses.

Whether it is incidents like those Anonymous anonymous report of Bob McGinn NFL scouts who overthrew its practice habits and called it “ordinary”.

Burden’s road had been rough and has crossed more difficult things.

He had lived in a difficult area near Saint-Louis, but kept his goal as a star athlete thanks, in part, to the influence of the friend and the Mentor Demetrious Johnson. THE The former NFL player died suddenly in 2022 Just like Burden’s university career had started.

With Burden in Chicago now, he will be under the supervision of the best man of the staff for this kind of thing in the coach of receivers Antwaan Randle El.

“The relationship will grow over time,” said Burden. “We were able to find a way to trust each other and build every day. We got the same goal. We are trying to win matches here, winning playoffs, winning super bowls, and we are locked up.”

Going to turn 2 hurts the wallet and pride, but does not put anything. Burden’s career has been to overcome obstacles with tenacity, so it’s not new.

“I think it’s just in me,” he told Halas Hall after the draft. “Just where I come from and be overlooked all my life.

“I love it, proves that everyone is wrong that is something negative to say about me.”

The best way to do so is to only give them positive points to discuss.

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