2026 1st round pick #3 is Jeremiyah Love RB

[Vacard]

Whoaaaa, easy there now. Bijon is a different animal. If he can equal Gibbs which is feasible, I'd be ecstatic.

You’d be suprise. Love is bigger and faster. He’s as fast as Gibbs but much bigger. If he stays healthy, he’ll be the best.

 

[Russ Smith]

HORSE CRAP. SMB sucked the year before and everyone INCLUDING YOU said that because of Monti’s incredible draft prowess either Melton or the rook from Michigan was going to beat him out and those two would likely end up our starters and guess what.. THEY WERE.



Newsflash… if your entire D could collapse because of the loss of a journeyman ILB like Wilson, you HAVE A BAD DEFENSE.



COLD HARD LIE… AS ALWAYS. The Niners had the most injuries in the league and guess what… they didn’t hav the worst record in the league. THEY WENT TO THE SECOND ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS.



We’ve been over and over and over this. The Niners, Vikings, Packers and other teams had RASHES over injuries all over the teams and their defenses didn’t go belly up.

But you know this.

AI Overview



Based on data from the end of the 2025 season, the Arizona Cardinals led the NFL with the highest number of injured players (32) and total games missed (303). The Buffalo Bills (297 games missed) and San Francisco 49ers (262 games missed) also experienced high injury rates during the 2025 campaign.
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• Arizona Cardinals: Finished 2025 with 32 players on IR, leading the league.
• Buffalo Bills & 49ers: Both teams were among the hardest hit in terms of total games lost.
• Detroit Lions: Faced significant injuries to key defensive players in 2025, according to local reports.
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For the most up-to-date, real-time injury reports during the offseason, you can check
CBS Sports' 2025 NFL Injury Report.

 

[kerouac9]

AI Overview



Based on data from the end of the 2025 season, the Arizona Cardinals led the NFL with the highest number of injured players (32) and total games missed (303). The Buffalo Bills (297 games missed) and San Francisco 49ers (262 games missed) also experienced high injury rates during the 2025 campaign.
Sports Info Solutions +2

• Arizona Cardinals: Finished 2025 with 32 players on IR, leading the league.
• Buffalo Bills & 49ers: Both teams were among the hardest hit in terms of total games lost.
• Detroit Lions: Faced significant injuries to key defensive players in 2025, according to local reports.
  Sports Info Solutions +2

For the most up-to-date, real-time injury reports during the offseason, you can check
CBS Sports' 2025 NFL Injury Report.

Thanks for sharing fake insight from the plagiarism machine instead of doing any research yourself

 

[Russ Smith]

Thanks for sharing fake insight from the plagiarism machine instead of doing any research yourself

CBS Sports is fake?

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[kerouac9]

CBS Sports is fake?

.

Why trust the ai overview of CBS Sports instead of just linking to it?

 

[Russ Smith]

Why trust the ai overview of CBS Sports instead of just linking to it?

Because the link is literally in what I posted? If you look at the bottom in pretty blue it has the link bolded.

I don't like AI much either but I don't see the point in fighting it. it took me 10 seconds to get all that information. If it's not true feel free to correct me but I'm not the one that said it was a lie and the 49ers led the league in injuries I just knew it wasn't true because I remembered hearing on air that we had.

I was going to post the AGL thing but I don't subscribe so I only got a link that said we had the 2nd highest AGL in history, apparently they only did it back to 2001 so in 25 years of doing it, only one team in history, the 2021 Ravens, had a higher AGL than we did last year.

 

[Crimson Warrior]

Thanks for sharing fake insight from the plagiarism machine instead of doing any research yourself

Bashing AI on the internet seems like a great long term strategy for staying healthy.

When ChatGPT becomes sentient it’s coming for you for you first! Haha

 

[Dayman]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/...g-overreactions-takeaways-lessons-picks-teams

The problem is that the main purpose of the draft, in a league with a salary cap, is to extract maximum value from players during the early years of their careers so you can spend your cap space elsewhere. You are looking for guys who will outplay the value of their contracts.

If Love plays like a top-10 running back all four years, the Cardinals will be paying him accordingly. If they'd taken, for example, Ohio State's Arvell Reese with that pick, Reese would have made the same $13.125 million per year (35th among edge rushers). Ohio State's Carnell Tate, who went one pick later to the Titans, will make an average of $12.7 million over the first four years of his career. That makes him the 32nd-highest-paid wide receiver.

This is what we mean when we talk about extracting value. The Titans have a much better chance to spend the next four years underpaying Tate relative to his performance than the Cardinals have of doing the same with Love. The Cardinals also play in a division that featured three 12-win teams in 2025, one of which won the Super Bowl. Their quarterbacks room consists of Jacoby Brissett, Gardner Minshew II and third-round rookie Carson Beck. They are not a win-now team that can look at a running back on an expensive contract as the final missing piece, the way the Eagles did with Barkley when they signed him as a free agent in 2024 and went on to win the Super Bowl.

Again, this is no offense to Love, who I hope has an excellent career. The concern is that by the time the Cardinals are likely to contend, they'll be confronting a contract extension with Love that they might not be able to afford. Arizona could easily be wasting the early years of his career while paying him a premium salary.

 

[Hoodhero]

Just watched his press conference and guy is extremely well spoken. Giving off some Fitz vibes when its comes to character. Defintely future face of franchise if he brings it on grass as well.

 

[HerefortheCards]

“Monti sucks at drafting, he passes on talent all the time.”

Monti takes the best player in the draft….

“Not like that!!!”

 

[JCSunsfan]

Thanks for sharing fake insight from the plagiarism machine instead of doing any research yourself

What? Getting info from CBS is a problem? You expect him to comb through weekly game rosters or something?

 

[Russ Smith]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/...g-overreactions-takeaways-lessons-picks-teams

The problem is that the main purpose of the draft, in a league with a salary cap, is to extract maximum value from players during the early years of their careers so you can spend your cap space elsewhere. You are looking for guys who will outplay the value of their contracts.

If Love plays like a top-10 running back all four years, the Cardinals will be paying him accordingly. If they'd taken, for example, Ohio State's Arvell Reese with that pick, Reese would have made the same $13.125 million per year (35th among edge rushers). Ohio State's Carnell Tate, who went one pick later to the Titans, will make an average of $12.7 million over the first four years of his career. That makes him the 32nd-highest-paid wide receiver.

This is what we mean when we talk about extracting value. The Titans have a much better chance to spend the next four years underpaying Tate relative to his performance than the Cardinals have of doing the same with Love. The Cardinals also play in a division that featured three 12-win teams in 2025, one of which won the Super Bowl. Their quarterbacks room consists of Jacoby Brissett, Gardner Minshew II and third-round rookie Carson Beck. They are not a win-now team that can look at a running back on an expensive contract as the final missing piece, the way the Eagles did with Barkley when they signed him as a free agent in 2024 and went on to win the Super Bowl.

Again, this is no offense to Love, who I hope has an excellent career. The concern is that by the time the Cardinals are likely to contend, they'll be confronting a contract extension with Love that they might not be able to afford. Arizona could easily be wasting the early years of his career while paying him a premium salary.

Agree with much of that but I have to say I really don't know how bad we are.

2 years ago we were 8-9, last year we started 2-0 and lost the next 3 games by a total of 5 points. then we completely fell off a cliff but again we had the 2nd worst injury situation since records have been kept in 2001.We also as you pointed out played in a division with 3 really good teams, the same article that mentions the AGL said that Seattle and the Rams had 2 of the 3 or 4 highest DVOA's since they kept the stat.

if they're that good again this year and SF gets healthy then yes we're going to have a terrible record because that's 6 losses right there. If they come back to the pack a bit maybe we're better.

So I won't be surprised if we have 3-4 wins I won't be surprised if we get 7-9.

Put it this way if I told you going into last year we just added the best player in the draft, Love, to an 8-9 team that was one of the better running offenses in the league would you expect a 3 win season? I think you would expect a borderline playoff team.

I think it's pretty likely we finish with a better record than we had last year, how much better I don't know. now if we start Beck yeah we might win 3 or less.

 

[Redsz]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/...g-overreactions-takeaways-lessons-picks-teams

The problem is that the main purpose of the draft, in a league with a salary cap, is to extract maximum value from players during the early years of their careers so you can spend your cap space elsewhere. You are looking for guys who will outplay the value of their contracts.

If Love plays like a top-10 running back all four years, the Cardinals will be paying him accordingly. If they'd taken, for example, Ohio State's Arvell Reese with that pick, Reese would have made the same $13.125 million per year (35th among edge rushers). Ohio State's Carnell Tate, who went one pick later to the Titans, will make an average of $12.7 million over the first four years of his career. That makes him the 32nd-highest-paid wide receiver.

This is what we mean when we talk about extracting value. The Titans have a much better chance to spend the next four years underpaying Tate relative to his performance than the Cardinals have of doing the same with Love. The Cardinals also play in a division that featured three 12-win teams in 2025, one of which won the Super Bowl. Their quarterbacks room consists of Jacoby Brissett, Gardner Minshew II and third-round rookie Carson Beck. They are not a win-now team that can look at a running back on an expensive contract as the final missing piece, the way the Eagles did with Barkley when they signed him as a free agent in 2024 and went on to win the Super Bowl.

Again, this is no offense to Love, who I hope has an excellent career. The concern is that by the time the Cardinals are likely to contend, they'll be confronting a contract extension with Love that they might not be able to afford. Arizona could easily be wasting the early years of his career while paying him a premium salary.

This is normally correct when you have a typical draft with a number of good players at premier positions. This draft did not have that.

The context of this pick is that the best pass rusher was gone, the "best" OTs werent worth #3, and based on reports there werent decent trade offers. So the logical move in that scenario is take BPA.

I HATED that they did the bare minimum in FA. But the Cardinals have alot of cap space and are projected to have even more in 26/27. The cap implications here for selecting Love aren't significant at all.

 

[kerouac9]

Put it this way if I told you going into last year we just added the best player in the draft, Love, to an 8-9 team that was one of the better running offenses in the league would you expect a 3 win season? I think you would expect a borderline playoff team.

I don’t get where you’re going here. Last year we added Walter Nolen to an 8-9 team and we all expected a borderline playoff team.

Adding a really good running back to a really good rushing offense doesn’t create much improvement at the margins. If you go from the fourth-best rushing game to the second the impact isn’t great.

 

[Russ Smith]

I don’t get where you’re going here. Last year we added Walter Nolen to an 8-9 team and we all expected a borderline playoff team.

Adding a really good running back to a really good rushing offense doesn’t create much improvement at the margins. If you go from the fourth-best rushing game to the second the impact isn’t great.

I am saying I think 3 wins last year might have been an outlier. We had a near record number of injuries, and an incredibly difficult schedule.

The schedule might repeat this year given how good our division is but it seems unlikely the injury thing will we are probably going to be better than last year.

Adding a RT at 3 wasn't going to be the difference maker and the draft proved there was no RT worthy of being picked that high. To be perfect we would have had to move back to 8-10 so either the Browns or Giants. The giants weren't giving us the 6 and 10 to get the 3rd pick IMO so browns 9 and 24 was probably the best offer. I'm much happier with Love than with Fano or Mauigoa. Or get ahead of both by dealing with Saints who only had 1 first rounder. I've seen suggestions we do the Giants deal we get Simpson at 10 and Lomu at 24 but that's complete hindsight and I think taking Simpson that high would have been crazy for us he's going to probably need to sit at least a full year maybe 2. Love will make us better right away

 

[kerouac9]

I am saying I think 3 wins last year might have been an outlier. We had a near record number of injuries, and an incredibly difficult schedule.

The schedule might repeat this year given how good our division is but it seems unlikely the injury thing will we are probably going to be better than last year.

Adding a RT at 3 wasn't going to be the difference maker and the draft proved there was no RT worthy of being picked that high. To be perfect we would have had to move back to 8-10 so either the Browns or Giants. The giants weren't giving us the 6 and 10 to get the 3rd pick IMO so browns 9 and 24 was probably the best offer. I'm much happier with Love than with Fano or Mauigoa. Or get ahead of both by dealing with Saints who only had 1 first rounder. I've seen suggestions we do the Giants deal we get Simpson at 10 and Lomu at 24 but that's complete hindsight and I think taking Simpson that high would have been crazy for us he's going to probably need to sit at least a full year maybe 2. Love will make us better right away

I think we were closer to an 8-win team with Kyler and fewer injuries. The quarterback situation is a huge drag obviously.

History has shown that adding a good running back doesn’t move the needle in the W/L column for bad teams.

We were probably a 10-win ceiling last season with health and Kyler. Love might make up some of the playmaking deficit but he doesn’t net upgrade the team.

I think this roster healthy is a 8-win max team with or without Calais Campbell.

 

[Russ Smith]

I think we were closer to an 8-win team with Kyler and fewer injuries. The quarterback situation is a huge drag obviously.

History has shown that adding a good running back doesn’t move the needle in the W/L column for bad teams.

We were probably a 10-win ceiling last season with health and Kyler. Love might make up some of the playmaking deficit but he doesn’t net upgrade the team.

I think this roster healthy is a 8-win max team with or without Calais Campbell.

Agree the QB play is the key this year. JB was ok but but much of the stats were when we were way down but statisically he was better when we were ahead than behind. I am hopeful he's good enough we all saw the key is giving him time he has a slow release and holds the ball too long trying to push it downfield, it's admirable but problematic. At his age he's probably not going to change although maybe CMLF can get him to improve.

So my hope is having a solid run game can be the change, he didn't have it last year everyone knew we had to throw the ball.

I don't have a clue how many wins I think we'll be better on offense than last year and there's a chance the defense is better. Depends on health, when does Nolen come back, how healthy is he etc.

 

[Mr. Boldin]

This is normally correct when you have a typical draft with a number of good players at premier positions. This draft did not have that.

The context of this pick is that the best pass rusher was gone, the "best" OTs werent worth #3, and based on reports there werent decent trade offers. So the logical move in that scenario is take BPA.

I HATED that they did the bare minimum in FA. But the Cardinals have alot of cap space and are projected to have even more in 26/27. The cap implications here for selecting Love aren't significant at all.

Extracting maximum value is obviously ideal. But guess what? We suck. The draft is ALSO a way to add quality players, which is exactly what we need to do.

 

[Russ Smith]

I think we were closer to an 8-win team with Kyler and fewer injuries. The quarterback situation is a huge drag obviously.

History has shown that adding a good running back doesn’t move the needle in the W/L column for bad teams.

We were probably a 10-win ceiling last season with health and Kyler. Love might make up some of the playmaking deficit but he doesn’t net upgrade the team.

I think this roster healthy is a 8-win max team with or without Calais Campbell.

This pushes to the wayback machine but Dallas was 1-15 a VERY bad team. next year they drafted Emmit Smith and won 7 games, next season 11 wins. Now they had Aikman a year before Smith we obviously don't but Smith was a huge reason why Dallas got better.

 

[Jetstream Green]

To quote Van Halen's David Lee Roth from "Dance the Night Away", it was love in the third degree- pick that is.

An interesting response by John Lynch of the Niners when asked about the Rams selecting Simpson at 13, he immediately responded by being more concerned about the other team in the division taking Love.

 

[phillycard]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/...g-overreactions-takeaways-lessons-picks-teams

The problem is that the main purpose of the draft, in a league with a salary cap, is to extract maximum value from players during the early years of their careers so you can spend your cap space elsewhere. You are looking for guys who will outplay the value of their contracts.

If Love plays like a top-10 running back all four years, the Cardinals will be paying him accordingly. If they'd taken, for example, Ohio State's Arvell Reese with that pick, Reese would have made the same $13.125 million per year (35th among edge rushers). Ohio State's Carnell Tate, who went one pick later to the Titans, will make an average of $12.7 million over the first four years of his career. That makes him the 32nd-highest-paid wide receiver.

This is what we mean when we talk about extracting value. The Titans have a much better chance to spend the next four years underpaying Tate relative to his performance than the Cardinals have of doing the same with Love. The Cardinals also play in a division that featured three 12-win teams in 2025, one of which won the Super Bowl. Their quarterbacks room consists of Jacoby Brissett, Gardner Minshew II and third-round rookie Carson Beck. They are not a win-now team that can look at a running back on an expensive contract as the final missing piece, the way the Eagles did with Barkley when they signed him as a free agent in 2024 and went on to win the Super Bowl.

Again, this is no offense to Love, who I hope has an excellent career. The concern is that by the time the Cardinals are likely to contend, they'll be confronting a contract extension with Love that they might not be able to afford. Arizona could easily be wasting the early years of his career while paying him a premium salary.

This is completely fair Dayman. That being said, I'm about the present. IMO the plusses outweigh the minuses which is how I've coped with this pick.

 

[Adrian]

Tyler Drake
@Tdrake4sports
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Albert Breer confirms the Cardinals never had a top 30 visit with Jeremiyah Love (despite some thinking otherwise) in an effort to hide their interest.

 

[Totally_Red]

Tyler Drake
@Tdrake4sports
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Albert Breer confirms the Cardinals never had a top 30 visit with Jeremiyah Love (despite some thinking otherwise) in an effort to hide their interest.

No wonder they didn't have his phone number.

 

[Adrian]

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[Adrian]

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