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Notre Dame superstar RB Jeremiyah Love, a rising junior for the Fighting Irish, is one of the top NFL draft prospects for the 2026 cycle. Love is the consensus RB1 heading into the college football season and is garnering Heisman Trophy hype as Notre Dame looks to return to the College Football Playoff. Stepping into a starting role last year, he ran for 1,125 yards and 17 touchdowns on a 6.9 yards per carry clip. He added 237 yards and two touchdowns as a receiver, becoming one of the most explosive and dangerous offensive weapons in the country.
Standing at 6-0, 206 pounds, Love is a little undersized. He’s an otherworldly athlete despite this, with elite, game-breaking speed. Just watch this play:
Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love is pure speed. Has the patience to let his blocks develop and just glides past all the defenders. Really remarkable how fluidly he accelerates.
— Ethan Woodie (@ethanwoodienfl.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T21:30:52.512Z
The run concept here isn’t complicated — it’s a gap-scheme, downhill attack. Each lineman has their assignment and will push them off the line to create space. When Love gets the ball, he’s reading a series of gaps, almost like a quarterback going through progressions, and how a couple defenders are playing them. The left tackle folds the edge defender back inside, allowing the left guard to climb to the second level and get a kick-out block on the linebacker. Once Love sees daylight, he flies through the line backside just past the center like a bullet train, and no one is catching him in a footrace.
Love’s fluidity as he accelerates really impresses me. He’s almost gliding, visually exerting less than the defenders as he blows by them. Not only that, but Love’s vision as a ball-carrier is elite. He’s always scanning for the best gap to attack, but he doesn’t pass up on easy yards in search of the home-run play. Here’s another example:
Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love's vision and burst are on display here. No wasted motion, he follows his blocks and hits the hole as it opens with no hesitation. Lightning-quick jump cut to free himself and watch how he just eats the space in front of him.
— Ethan Woodie (@ethanwoodienfl.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T21:28:34.303Z
This is an inside zone run, one where Love is free to pick his spots as the play develops. All the offensive linemen are moving together to the left and downhill, displacing the defense and creating a clear hole for Love to run through. However, the safety overruns it, leaving a backside cut on the other side of the center wide open. The lateral quickness and explosiveness Love possesses is clearly evident on this play. That is a world-class jump cut, no wasted motion. Just one foot in the ground and an instant change of direction. Once he makes it to the second level, he doesn’t waste time dancing either. He eats up the space in front of him and...
