Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz discuss former Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love’s draft stock and Jason explains why he doesn’t expect him to get drafted outside of the top 5. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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Jeremiah Love feels like he has absolutely exploded.
I, I saw this morning Dan Orlovsky saying that Jeremiah Love is the best player in this draft.
If we just take position out of everything, he’s number one.
That’s not a new sentiment suddenly, and you really You saw how fast he ran, you saw how freakishly athletic he is.
You just, you saw everything about Jeremiah Love, and this is where we start to have the conversation about where you take a running back.
I, I get it, but if we’re just talking about eliminating any questions, Jeremiah Love, I already think didn’t have many question marks to come in with anyway.
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But when you actually saw him through the course at Indy, I think he absolutely stamped himself as a valuable Like, there is no chance in my mind Jeremiah Love makes it to five.
So, if you want him, you better get him in the top five at this point, especially after the performance he just had at Indy.
You don’t think he falls out of the top five?
I don’t think he falls out of the top five.
I don’t, running back or not, I think you fall I think we’re, we’re looking at a top five pick for a running back.
Yep.
Yep, I said it.
I’ll stand by it.
I’ll have 10 toes in the ground on it.
But- Same, same 40 as Jahmyr, and he’s 15 pounds heavier.
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Oh my God, like he’s a truck that runs with an engine of a Ferrari.
My God.
My G- I mean, look, running backs need love too, and we don’t give nearly enough love, pun intended, to running backs.
So look, I love that, again, pun intended, that you’re giving credit where credit is due.
Because I talked to Jeremiah Love at the Super Bowl, and I asked him, you know, “What NFL running back reminds you of you?”
And he did say Jahmyr Gibbs, and he did tell me, he said, “Look, in the NFL I’ll play receiver.
Like, if that’s where my, my greatest value is at the next level, then sure, I’ll, I’ll run, I’ll block, I’ll catch, I can run routes.
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Like, put me in wherever you need me, Coach.”
So I think it’s that kind of mentality, one, that’s in- incredibly rare, and I think something that any coach or general manager in the NFL would be looking for.
But also, in the same breath, it’s not just the fact that he’s willing to do it, it’s the fact that he can.
It’s the fact that he 1000% say, “Hey Jeremiah, go run a go route and beat a corner 40 yards downfield,” he can do it.
So yeah, I, I do think Jeremiah Love is one of those, like a Brock Bowers, that I say, “Hey, take the positional tag away from him and just view him as a chess piece.
You view him as an offensive weapon,” because that’s exactly how he is.
Don’t get blindsided or blindfolded to the fact that he has a, a running back next to his name.
Jeremiah Love makes 32 teams in the NFL better.