NFC Notes: Terrion Arnold, Colston Loveland, Bears, Lions, Packers

NFC Notes: Terrion Arnold, Colston Loveland, Bears, Lions, Packers
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Bears

  • Jeremy Fowler ranked the league’s top 10 tight ends, with Colston Loveland receiving a rank and TE Cole Kmet an honorable mention: “He’s unbelievable,” an NFL coordinator said of Loveland. “A smooth mover with toughness. [ Loveland] could be the Bears’ top receiver next year. Expect to see more two- or three-tight-end sets from Chicago this year.”
  • On Kmet: “He’s still a quality player who’s friendly for a young quarterback, good in the run game. They need to find ways to get Kmet and Loveland on the field together.”
  • Fowler asked anonymous execs around the league to rank the top offensive tackles, and Darnell Wright was mentioned by an NFL personnel director: “Power and brute strength. He can do whatever he wants on a football field. I don’t see a consistently high motor. That’s the next step for him is getting that up.”
  • ESPN ranked the top interior linemen in the league with help from anonymous executives, who listed veteran G Joe Thuney: “He’s losing a little lateral quickness, but he’s so technically sound and tough and sturdy and stronger than you’d think that it doesn’t really matter,” an NFC exec said. “He was awesome last year.”

Lions

  • The Athletic’s Melody Gutierrez, Adam Kilgore and Matt Baker reported details of the events that led to the arrest of former Lions CB Terrion Arnold on kidnapping and robbery charges, and ultimately to his release by Detroit, using police reports, body-cam footage, testimony and court documents.
  • Arnold and a group of his friends had rented an Airbnb near Tampa for a weekend of partying. Neighbors said there were 20 people going in and out of the residence, and there were complaints about the noise and the marijuana smoke. The host told The Athletic it took three cleaners around seven hours and 20 trash bags to clean the townhome after Arnold checked out. The HOA president told police: “What a weekend. We’re changing the rules because of that.”
  • Toward the end of the weekend, Arnold and his associates started to notice that things were missing. They later filed a claim with the police listing the items, including an $80,000 diamond chain and pendant with Arnold’s initials, Goyard and Louis Vuitton bags, four pairs of LV shoes, two Rolexes, multiple firearms and credit cards, Arnold’s cellphone, a bag with $100,000 in cash and finally Arnold’s Bible.
  • When Arnold’s sister saw that his phone was in Miami, where one of his associates, his driver, had said he was going to be next, he and his group began to suspect them of the robbery. Instead of telling the police, they hatched a plot for two of their female friends to use sex as a lure to get the two men they suspected of the robbery to an apartment where they would be confronted.
  • Prosecutors say Arnold and his friend coordinated the plot via text message with the women. Later on, another group chat...