{"id":872412,"date":"2026-04-23T03:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:45:14","slug":"daniel-jeremiah-mock-draft-jeremiyah-love-carnell-tate-to-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872412\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Jeremiah mock draft: Jeremiyah Love, Carnell Tate to the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 NFL Draft is almost here, and Thursday night we\u2019ll finally find out who will be the newest members of the New York Giants.<\/p>\n

But the 24 hours left until the draft means there\u2019s still time for draft experts to release their final mock drafts. Former NFL scout and NFL Network draft expert Daniel Jeremiah released his final mock draft<\/a> of the cycle. Jeremiah joins Todd McShay in predicting the Giants bypass defense entirely and drafts two offensive players at 5th and 10th overall.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah takes John Harbaugh to heart when he says he wants to build a dynamic offense around Jaxson Dart and sends Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love to the Giants at 5th overall and Ohio State wide receiver Carnell Tate to them at 10th.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Raiders – Fernando Mendoza (QB, Indiana)New York Jets – David Bailey (EDGE, Texas Tech)New Orleans Saints – Arvell Reese (EDGE, Ohio State) *Trade – Arizona Cardinals move down to 8th & 26thTennessee Titans – Sonny Styles (LB, Ohio State)<\/p>\n

5. Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Love falls into the Giants\u2019 lap and they can\u2019t turn down the opportunity to pair Jaxson Dart with a home run hitter in the backfield. If Love is off the board at No. 5, I think WR Jordyn Tyson would be the pick here.<\/p>\n

10. Carnell Tate, WR, Ohio State<\/p>\n

With Jordyn Tyson off the board, Tate comes into play for the Giants. The rookie joins Malik Nabers to give Jaxson Dart two outstanding wide receivers heading into a critical year in his development.<\/p>\n

Check out our New York Giants Draft Hub Page<\/a> for all the Giants draft news, rumors, analysis, mock drafts, prospect profiles, and much more!<\/p>\n

This is actually a scenario I\u2019ve been considering today, particularly after our Staff Mock Draft Wednesday morning. And adding a wide receiver \u2014 be it Jordyn Tyson or Carnell Tate \u2014 in conjunction with Jeremiyah Love \u2014 is a scenario in which I might be okay with drafting the running back.<\/p>\n

As I said this morning when Todd McShay sent Love to the Giants<\/a>, I\u2019m not in favor of drafting a running back in the first round.<\/p>\n

Ed qualifies in his \u201cRules For Draft Success\u201d with the addendum that it\u2019s okay if the runner is a \u201cfinishing piece\u201d. In the past that\u2019s been a \u201cgold jacket\u201d player \u2014 a nod to Saquon Barkley. Personally, my rule is simpler: Don\u2019t draft a running back in the first round.<\/p>\n

More than any other position, running back production depends on everything around them<\/a> and making a rookie running back the fourth-highest paid player at his position before he even sets foot on a football field is a questionable use of resources. Philosophically, I believe that Joe Schoen\u2019s strategy of leveraging the value of early Day 3 runners is the responsible course of action.<\/p>\n

Love is a dynamic athlete with the skill set to be an big play threat as a receiver and runner, though the fact the he\u2019s a relatively modestly-sized 215 pounds (compared to the 225-230 pound power backs typically used in spread offenses) means he\u2019ll need to be in the right environment to be consistently productive. Love doesn\u2019t have the size or power to shrug off tacklers around the line of scrimmage, and his effectiveness wanes considerably when the defense keys on the run.<\/p>\n

Turning to Tate for a moment, I would consider getting him at 10th to be a coup.<\/p>\n

I generally don\u2019t share my personal grades on players, but Tate is tied with Sonny Styles as my top-graded player in this draft class. I am a huge fan of his game and believe it is not only immediately translates to the NFL, but it will be very durable over the years. Tate is an absolute route technician, on the order of Odell Beckham in his prime, while also having absolutely pristine hands with no drops and winning contested catches at a rate of 30 points higher than George Pickens (85.7% to 56.4%). He also blocks with the unselfish tenacity of a walk-on tight end trying to earn a scholarship, which is sure to earn fans among coaches.<\/p>\n

The Ohio State fed athletic freak Jeremiah Smith, but I would argue that Tate is much better at playing the wide receiver position.<\/p>\n

The addition of Tate to Malik Nabers, Darnell Mooney, and Isaiah Likely might just create the kind of environment Love needs to live up to a Top 5 draft slot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a familiar argument and broadly the same one we used to rationalize selecting Saquon Barkley in 2018. However, the 2026 NFL Draft is an odd one. with the highest upside players being at some of the lowest leverage positions.<\/p>\n

The board may just dictate that the Giants invest heavily in positions they otherwise might not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL Draft is almost here, and Thursday night we\u2019ll finally find out who will be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,1208,37129],"class_list":{"0":"post-872412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-york-giants-draft","10":"tag-new-york-giants-mock-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116451968559281782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}