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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

The Worst Kept Secret in Fantasy Football | Luther Burden Year 2 eruption

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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4.9719 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Are there too many mouths to feed in the Chicago Bears offense? Can the team's pass catchers all eat? Is Luther Burden on pace for an ERUPTION in year 2? Jacob Gibbs digs in with a film + data deep dive on Beyond the Box Score!

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0:00.0

Are there too many mouths to feed in the Chicago Bears offense?

0:04.4

We've got, you know, Luther Burton. Everybody, that's what we're going to talk about today. Everybody's super excited for. We've got Colson Loveland. If you are a fan of Beyond the Box score here, you know, we are super, super excited for. Huge fans of Luther and Colson Loveland here. And then Roman Dunezay as well, top ten pick, super talented guy. We've got an offense that likes to lean on the run game.

0:23.3

They got two running backs that are running well. some love in here and then roman doones day as well top 10 pick super talented guy we got an

0:21.1

offense that likes to lean on the run game they got two running backs that are running well

0:24.9

ben jonson obviously loves that and then you also have Caleb Williams who likes to use his

0:29.9

legs when in scoring distance that could take touchdowns away from these past catchers so can

0:34.7

they all eat can we get to these crazy heights for

0:38.9

Luther Bird and that people are projecting? Myself, you know, maybe contributing to this with some

0:43.7

irresponsible tweets here back in December. Could Luther Bird be a top 10 receiver for fantasy?

0:50.2

We're going to dig into all this today. Like, can the offense actually facilitate that type of production?

0:55.3

Looking back at Detroit and Ben Johnson's time there, I think there's a lot of reasons to believe that something like that could come.

1:04.3

But first, I want to focus on Burden himself.

1:06.6

Why are people so excited for this rookie?

1:09.8

And I think it starts with the film.

1:11.6

If you want to check that out, you can go to my Twitter account and search from there, Luther

1:18.1

Burton's name, and you will find all sorts of data, as well as film cut-ups.

1:22.3

It's really phenomenal stuff, what Burton put on the field last year.

1:26.9

That's backed up by the data. That's

1:28.2

illustrated here clearly by the data. So what I have here is yard per route run rate leaders from

1:33.2

2025 with a minimum of 300 routes run, including the playoffs. I think that is important.

1:39.7

You'll sometimes see Luther Burton splits floating around the web where he has a 2.7 or 2.8

1:45.7

yard per route run rate, which we put him behind only Pooka, Nuku, and Jackson, Smith, and Jigba.

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