2026 1st round pick #3 is Jeremiyah Love RB
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So all of these guys are good and talented? Jones was healthy all year last year (and in the back half of 2024 if we’re being honest) and couldn’t get on the field.
Melton has missed 5 of 34 potential games due to injury. I’m still kind of cheering for him.
Which of those guys, based on the available evidence, do you think are above-average starters in the NFL this year?
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I personally think you can't make that strong of a claim about any of them. Johnson, Williams and Burke have probably looked the best, to me, but I would bet the farm on any of them being above-average starters this year.
Pappoe and Robinson are on the verge of playing themselves out of the league. Although Robinson FINALLY played ok the last month of the season.
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on being an RB drafted third overall:
“Like Spider-Man said, ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’”
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@JeremiyahLove
on being an RB drafted third overall:
“Like Spider-Man said, ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’”
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There's a long, storied history of bad teams taking RBs high. Here's how I feel defending the pick
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Of course, the way it might work for us is our roster isnt as bad as we think. We were an 8-9 team in 2024 and in 2025 49% of our roster had season ending injuries. If we are closer to the 2024 version of the team Love could hit the ground running.
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I'm glad you agree
I would rather have the closest thing to a sure-fire pick than drafting a questionable QB. Many people considered him the BEST player in the draft. Getting him at #3 is a no brainer. I just hope this isn't another Hearst or Beanie type pick.
I can't really blame him. Its so rare for teams to trade away serviceable OTs, you either find one in the draft or make due with a bad one.
It's very apparent where Jeremiyah gets his character from.
Agree, one needs to look at his stats to see he wasn't exactly a overwhelming factor in games against top defenses. In fact in several games one big run was a significant contributor to his overall yardage for that day. He is no doubt a potential home run hitter however those fences are a bit farther in the NFL.
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Well, if you consider "occasionally" around 100 times per second, than, yeah.
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Jeremiyah Love favored for ROY, followed by Tate, Mendoza
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I forgot that Love is only 20 years old. Crazy that he is younger than my kids. Man that makes me feel old!
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Cardinals were given the wrong phone number for Jeremiyah Love
The Cardinals knew who they wanted to draft.
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The Cardinals knew who they wanted to draft. They just didn’t know how to reach him.
Arizona was ready to select Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love at No. 3 as soon as it was on the clock. The Cardinals, however, had to wait to turn in the card since they couldn’t get Love on the phone.
“If you want me to tell you the honest-to-God truth, we had the wrong phone number,” Cardinals General Manager Monti Ossenfort said, via Saad Yousuf of TheAthletic.com. “The phone number that we were given was the wrong one. That was the little bit of the delay. We got that straightened out, and we called Jeremiyah and we got ahold of him. That’s what the delay was — technical difficulties. There [were] very minimal [trade] conversations. There was some surface-level, but nothing that came anywhere close to getting us to move off the pick.”
The NFL limited access to prospects’ phone numbers after several players received prank calls last year. This year, the league gave the list of phone numbers to a single point of contact at the club in football operations, with that person charged with protecting the information.
It is unclear how the NFL corrected the error in time for the Cardinals to call Love before turning in the card.
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LOL... this team never fails to make itself look stupid, even in the smallest of ways.Cardinals were given the wrong phone number for Jeremiyah Love
The Cardinals knew who they wanted to draft.
The Cardinals knew who they wanted to draft. They just didn’t know how to reach him.
Arizona was ready to select Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love at No. 3 as soon as it was on the clock. The Cardinals, however, had to wait to turn in the card since they couldn’t get Love on the phone.
“If you want me to tell you the honest-to-God truth, we had the wrong phone number,” Cardinals General Manager Monti Ossenfort said, via Saad Yousuf of TheAthletic.com. “The phone number that we were given was the wrong one. That was the little bit of the delay. We got that straightened out, and we called Jeremiyah and we got ahold of him. That’s what the delay was — technical difficulties. There [were] very minimal [trade] conversations. There was some surface-level, but nothing that came anywhere close to getting us to move off the pick.”
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Jeremiyah Love, David Bailey are early rookie of the year favorites
Jeremiyah Love was not the first offensive player taken in the 2026 NFL Draft, but the running back is in front of Fernando Mendoza on another front.
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Did I read it wrong? I thought it said that the NFL controlled all phone numbers and provided the wrong number for Love.
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Maybe he should’ve drafted some more/better prospects
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Obviously the only way to get access to or check a players phone number was through the NFL.
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The NFL limited access to prospects’ phone numbers after several players received prank calls last year. This year, the league gave the list of phone numbers to a single point of contact at the club in football operations, with that person charged with protecting the information.
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What RB in history doesn't get a good portion of their yardage from big runs though? Sanders did, in the current league the top 5 in yards were Cook, Henry, Taylor, Robinson and Achane, all of them are big run guys. So is barkley. Everyone would love an Emmitt Smith type but he was a great runner with one of the best OL's in history in front of him.
