Here's the full picture on Jeremiyah Love for the 2026 season:
The good: Love went No. 3 overall to Arizona — the highest-drafted RB since Saquon Barkley — and has a truly special athletic profile (6'0", 212 lbs, 4.35 forty, 96th-percentile speed score). He led this draft class in yards after contact (4.2) and posted a 9.1 yards-per-carry rate against light boxes, the best for a top-10 RB prospect in a decade (from the Jeremiyah Love page). In Mike LaFleur's run-friendly, play-action-heavy system, he's projected for 60%+ of the carries and profiles as a true three-down workhorse. Freedman ranks him as his RB10 — mid-range RB2 with RB1 upside.
The concern: The Cardinals are in rebuild mode — they cut Kyler Murray and are rolling with Carson Beck / Jacoby Brissett / Gardner Minshew at QB, which could mean negative game scripts that cap weekly consistency. James Conner and Tyler Allgeier are still in the room, though Love's draft capital makes a committee unlikely. His current FantasyPros PPR rank is 34.
From the experts:
- Establish The Run sees him as a "mid to late second round" redraft pick — .
- Fantasy Football Today compared his talent to Bijan Robinson but noted the landing spot makes them nervous about the situation — .
- Sal Vetri called him "not the greatest" landing spot as a second-round redraft pick given the Cardinals' current state — .
Bottom line: Elite talent, elite draft capital, elite athleticism. In dynasty, he's the undisputed 1.01 — a "special player capable of having multiple elite RB1 seasons" per Sharp Football Analysis. In redraft, he's a high-upside RB2 with clear path to RB1 production if the Arizona offense is even average.