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Bears' Colston Loveland, Ruben Hyppolite, Kyle Monangai described by Big Ten teammates, coaches

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LAS VEGAS — Jake Butt’s Mackey Award — the honor bestowed annually upon college football’s best tight end — tells you he was quite the head-turning player at Michigan.

But he was no Colston Loveland. The talented TV analyst, who spent most of a brief NFL career with the Broncos and retired from the Bears in 2021, figured that out on a visit to Ann Arbor when he eyeballed Loveland in a Wolverines practice for the first time.

“I was like, ‘Who the [expletive] is that?’ ” Butt told the Sun-Times.