When it comes to NFL tight ends Mike Ditka is still The Man. For 64 years, all tight ends who entered the NFL failed to top ...

Bowers' seven catches for 77 yards give him 108 receptions for 1,144 yards in 16 games this season, eclipsing Mike ... 50-year old NFL record set by the very first tight end, in Ditka, to be ...

(Photo: USA TODAY Sports)In the midst of his greatest season as a coach, Mike Ditka experienced one of the ... showing that even one of the toughest men in NFL history has a sensitive side.

Did anyone say coaching stops at the final whistle? That's not quite the case. These former football minds didn't hang it all ...

In 1999, the New Orleans Saints became the only team in the history of the NFL draft to hold just one pick. That’s because – ...

Even the 1985 Bears are tired of talking about the 1985 Bears. "I don't know what else there is to say," Mike Ditka told director Jason Hehir as he sat ...

Prolific college tight ends often need to develop as serviceable blockers in order to stick in the NFL. Many were essentially learning ... decades by tallying 1,194 receiving yards, surpassing Mike ...