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On Tuesday, two days before the Bears would draft him and change his life forever, Colston Loveland helped brand cattle back home in Gooding, Idaho. He was careful to take any unnecessary risks with a shoulder that’s three months removed from surgery.
It wasn’t as much work as it was when he was a kid, branding 800 or so head of calves at his uncle’s house down the road from his own. Every April, he and his brothers would get a few days off of school to work.