PRESEASON · 2026 · OUTLOOK WINDOW
Heisman / Players / Player /Notre Dame

Jeremiyah Love

RB · Notre Dame · Jr · #4

Hits the crease and outruns the angle. This is his third year in the same backfield at Notre Dame. His first career honor landed in 2025: Doak Walker. One game to point at: 228 rush yds, 37 rec yds against USC — Week 8, 2025.

1,372 RUSH YDS · 18 RUSH TD · 199 CARRIES

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

  • season totals
  • positional archetype classification
  • seasons on the roster
  • recognition record
  • game log
2026 NFL DRAFTDrafted by Arizona — Rd 1, Pick 3, #3 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Arizona2026 NFL rookie season

#3Rd 1 · Pick 3
Arizona2026 NFL rookie season
View college career stats ↓

RB · NOTRE DAME · FBS INDEPENDENTS

Player

  • 3
  • #4
  • 6-0 | 214 lb
  • Saint Louis, MO

CFB Zeitgeist Score

94

#4 of 326. All-America level for a RB this season.

Heisman Heat

#22

1.3% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

1.3%

TOP RB AWARD

Doak Walker

—

CONSENSUS

All-American

—

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 4 · Elite

R14 · Unanimous All-American

Unanimous All-American. First-team on every major selector list.

Recognition

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production

94 · #4 of 326 RBs

Aura™ · Him Watch

the full board →
Hype = tape

+1aura tax

Fans rank this player in the 95th percentile of RBs; the tape says 94th — the discourse is fair.
Aura — fan perception95th pctl
Production — on-field94th pctl
n=154 mentions · cohort: RBs · 140 qualified · perception = conversation volume, production = our rushing-value metric (wEPA)

Buzz vs Tape

Country hotter than the fans

The wider college football conversation reads him warmer than his own fans do — a gap of 15.6 points in belief.

26.1own fans
41.7national conversation
own fans · 26.1national conversation · 41.713.654.2

Our Top 10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish countdown continues with number 9, Jeremiyah Love! Does a 12 vs 24 college football playoff make the most sense? What about 16? And former Irish QB Brady Quinn joins the show! Everydayer Club If you…

— Locked On Podcast Network

Also worth knowing:

attention pctl · 96thproduction pctl · 94th0th pctl100th pctl
fans · 26.1rival fans · 25.76.445.4
In Their Words 192 windows · 2026 fan posts
notre×69.4dame×46.2jeremiyah×185.0price×208.1better×10.5college×8.3

“Love Kevin Mcdougal, still my fav QB to ever play at Notre Dame. If only they could have held Boston College out of field goal range.”

youtube/Irish Illustrated · fan post, verbatim

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R14 Unanimous All-American · 2025

2023

Notre Dame · RB

R05 · Part-time starter

Starter

2024

Notre Dame · RB

R06 · Starter

Starter

★

2025

Notre Dame · RB

R14 · Unanimous All-American

Elite

NFL Draft 2026 · Rd 1, Pick 3 · #3 overall · Arizona

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2023–2025
3852023
1,1252024
1,3722025

+256%

Up 256% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#80 national
CFB
College
Notre Dame
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
R1 · #3
Arizona · 2026

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #20

Final rank
#20
Avg #22.3
Finalist prob 7%

Peaked at #20 this season.

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionRB
Class3
Jersey4
Measurements6-0 | 214 lb
HometownSaint Louis, MO
Primary teamNotre Dame

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 4-star No. 80 recruit
Composite rating 0.9634 HighSchool
Signed with Notre Dame 2023
Origin Christian Brothers College St. Louis, MO, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 4-star | 0.9634 No. 80 recruit | HighSchool | Notre Dame

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

Heisman Lens · 2025 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 22
Current nowcast#22Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#22Where the full season sim points
Win probability1.3%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability46.7%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish#3Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

Achievements

  • Honors Badge 0.7% Honors Badge Recognized on a major honors list (Heisman, All-American, Davey O'Brien, Maxwell, Walter Camp, Nagurski, Biletnikoff). Held by 0.7% of the 2025 pool. Recognized on: All-America (AFCA).
  • Volume King 1.3% Volume King 2,500+ passing yards, 1,200+ rushing yards, or 900+ receiving yards in a single season (position-appropriate threshold). Held by 1.3% of the 2025 pool. 1372 rushing yards — clears the 1,200-RB volume bar.
  • Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in rushing yards (1372).

Selector Grid · 2025

AP—
FWAA—
AFCA—
WCFF—
SN—
SI—

Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★★☆

to Notre Dame

Composite

0.9634

#80 national

NFL Draft

2026 · Rd 1, Pick 3

#3 overall · Arizona

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Player

Fan sentiment · Season 2025 conversation window

Belief Meter

60

Quietly Bullish

Sample 108 mentions
Confidence HIGH

Top Take

Trajectory

Cohort divergence mapbearishbullishheatedcalmOwn fans: 60 mentions · belief +15 · "Tyler Wojciak is back with part two of his conversation with VSiN’s Tim…"Own fansRivals: 8 mentions · belief +38 · "Was he going to beat Marcus, Derrick, Lamar, or Baker? No, but…"RivalsNational: 28 mentions · belief +51 · "Would love to actually talk about college football on this sub, so here's how…"National
  • Own fans · n=60
  • Rivals · n=8
  • National · n=28

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Player

Obsession score 7
Rival mentions 8
Weeks on radar 8
Peak moment Week 1 · 1 mention
Grudging respect 50% Neutral 38% Mockery 12%

2025 Signature · 2025 season

Receiving TDs

3

count

All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions

National rank #222 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 58th

Why it matters

222nd of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving TDs — 3 TDs on 27 receptions.

Vs cohort

This player 3 (58th)

MODERATE · n=27 cohort 531

  • Also strong
  • Yards per reception#401 / 531
  • Receiving yards (total)#409 / 531

Signature Moment

Week 5 at Arkansas — 2 receiving_tds

Result W 56-13

The week the volume broke through — stacked 2 td at Arkansas.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the rushing totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 12g
1,372Rush yards
199Carries
18Rush TDs
Per game
114.3Rush yards
17Carries
2Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
1,486Rush yards
216Carries
20Rush TDs

✓ Hit 750-yard season · finished with 1,372.

✓ Hit 1,000-yard season · finished with 1,372.

To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 1,372): needs 128/game over remaining 1.

✓ Hit 10 rushing TDs · finished with 18.

✓ Hit 15 rushing TDs · finished with 18.

To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 18): needs 2/game over remaining 1.

Why this is more than a rushing profile

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Player is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 1,372 rushing yards, 27 catches, and 0 return yards for Notre Dame. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #22 1.3% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 29.2% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 80 recruit

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,652 1,372 rush | 280 rec | #8/735 (99th pct)
Rush TD 18 199 carries | #3/739 (100th pct)
Yards/carry 6.9 Per-rush efficiency | #60/735 (92nd pct)

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
199 96th
YDS
1,372 99th
YPC
6.9 92nd
TD
18 100th

Receiving

REC
27 92nd
YDS
280 97th
YPR
10.4 80th
TD
3 99th

Game by game

Player's 2025 production

Point color shows the opponent's defensive strength that week (red = weaker defense, blue = stronger) — dashed line is this player's own season average.

2621310Season avg1 @ Miami — 33 rush yds (L 24-27)13 vs Texas A&M — 94 rush yds (L 40-41)34 vs Purdue — 157 rush yds (W 56-30)45 @ Arkansas — 57 rush yds (W 56-13)56 vs Boise State — 103 rush yds (W 28-7)67 vs NC State — 86 rush yds (W 36-7)78 vs USC — 228 rush yds (W 34-24)810 @ Boston College — 136 rush yds (W 25-10)1011 vs Navy — 94 rush yds (W 49-10)1112 @ Pittsburgh — 147 rush yds (W 37-15)1213 vs Syracuse — 171 rush yds (W 70-7)1314 @ Stanford — 66 rush yds (W 49-20)14Season high228 rush yds
Source CFB Zeitgeist · player_game_stats + power_ratings_weekly

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCARYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1L 24-27@ Miami10333.308
Wk 3L 40-41vs Texas A&M23944.1116
Wk 4W 56-30vs Purdue191578.3246157-yard day
Wk 5W 56-13@ Arkansas14574.1215
Wk 6W 28-7vs Boise State161036.4136
Wk 7W 36-7vs NC State18864.8224
Wk 8W 34-24vs USC242289.5163Season-high 228 yds
Wk 10W 25-10@ Boston College171368.0294
Wk 11W 49-10vs Navy13947.2248
Wk 12W 37-15@ Pittsburgh231476.4156
Wk 13W 70-7vs Syracuse817121.43683 rushing TDs
Wk 14W 49-20@ Stanford14664.7118
Total19913727.41894
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2023Notre Dame10-3HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2024Notre Dame14-2HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2025Notre Dame10-2HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025Notre Dame1991,3726.918--
2024Notre Dame1631,1256.917--
2023Notre Dame713855.41--
Career4332,8826.736--
SeasonTeam
2025Notre Dame2728010.43--
2024Notre Dame282378.52--
2023Notre Dame8779.61--
Career635949.46--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

Receiving work 27 280 rec yds | #46/552 (92nd pct)
Usage 29.2% 45.6% rush share | #14/738 (98th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.25 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #23/362 (94th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,372 #8/735 99th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 18 #3/739 100th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.9 #60/735 92nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 27 #46/552 92nd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 280 #19/548 97th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.25 #23/362 94th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 202 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 29.2% #14/738 98th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 199 #28/739 96th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 94 #4/733 100th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 36 #90/540 84th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 10.4 #111/548 80th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 3 #5/552 99th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 45.6% #29/738 96th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 33.2% #8/738 99th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 31.7% #23/738 97th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 31.3% #29/738 96th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 23.6% #9/738 99th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 18.6% #37/738 95th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 9.9% #33/738 96th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/256 100th pct Turnoversvs FBS RB

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

UNANIMOUS AA

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

UNANIMOUS AA · Rung 14 of 16

Why he’s here

Unanimous All-American — 1st team on all five NCAA-recognized selectors.

What moves him up

The only step up is a Player-of-the-Year invite.

What moves him down

Losing a selector drops this to Consensus.

Accolade streams

National rank#20

Outside the contender bubble at #20. Climb requires a stat-leap stretch in October/November.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Home7g1338.81.7
Road5g87.85.31.2

First half vs Second half

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Weeks 1-76g88.35.21.3
Weeks 8+6g1409.51.7

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

94All-America level #4 of 326?
High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: td rate (83rd). Strength: explosive rate (81st).

Real play-by-play efficiency

TD rate#78 / 456 · 83rd pct
5.2%
Explosive rate#86 / 456 · 81st pct
9.4%
Yards / carry#109 / 456 · 76th pct
5.7
EPA / carry#164 / 456 · 64th pct
0.16
Success rate#167 / 456 · 63rd pct
46.1%
Box-score rates (8)
Rush TDs#3 / 349 · 99th pct
18
Long run#4 / 349 · 99th pct
94
Rush yards#8 / 349 · 98th pct
1372
Yards / carry#14 / 349 · 96th pct
6.9
Rec yards#18 / 338 · 95th pct
280
Carries#28 / 349 · 92nd pct
199
Fumbles lost#1 / 201 · 87th pct
0
Receptions#46 / 338 · 86th pct
27

Season trend

Last seasonThis season
EPA / carry
75th64th
75th → 64th percentile
Success rate
73th63th
73th → 63th percentile
Explosive rate
87th81th
87th → 81th percentile
Yards / carry
94th76th
94th → 76th percentile
TD rate
95th83th
95th → 83th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Advanced Savant · RB · 2025

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback—
awaiting
CPOE—
awaiting
Success rate—
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)—
awaiting
aDOT—
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy—
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack—
awaiting
3rd-down EPA—
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate—
awaiting
Play-action EPA—
awaiting
Scramble EPA—
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate—
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

wepa_rushing0.25Elite (≥p90) (n=178)

Player DNA

Speed Merchant

Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.

RB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jeremiyah Love’s 2024 season.

Jeremiyah Love

80%match

Notre Dame · 2024

NFL Rd 1 · Pk 3
#2

Devin Neal

Kansas · 2023

77%
#3

Kendre Miller

TCU · 2022

All-Big 12NFL Rd 3 · Pk 8
69%
#4

Ty Chandler

North Carolina · 2021

All-ACCNFL Rd 5
66%
#5

Zach Evans

Ole Miss · 2022

66%

Matches Jeremiyah on

EPA / carry (adj)
Rush TD rate
Receiving share

Differs from Jeremiyah on

Class year (higher)
Yards / reception (higher)
Based on 10 features · 4 seasons in pool · Opponent-adjusted weighted z-score distance

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Zach Evans's junior season at Ole Miss (2022).

Zach Evans

72%match

Ole Miss · 2022

#2

TreVeyon Henderson

Ohio State · 2023

All-Big TenNFL Rd 2 · Pk 6
68%
#3

Le'Veon Moss

Texas A&M · 2024

68%
#4

Kaleb Johnson

Iowa · 2024

Consensus All-AmericanNFL Rd 3 · Pk 19
68%
#5

Quinshon Judkins

Ohio State · 2024

All-Big TenNFL Rd 2 · Pk 4
67%

Matches Zach on

Yards / carry
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Receiving share

Differs from Zach on

Rush TD rate (higher)
EPA / carry (adj) (lower)
Opponent-adjusted stats · junior cohort across all seasons

Player DNA

Players who play like Player

#1

Mycah Pittman

Oregon · 2021

91%

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Marcus Freeman

Pass share

44.0%

321 pass / 409 run

Plays / game

60.8

12 games

Team sack rate

3.4%

349 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame
2024
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame
2025
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame

Played his entire career under Marcus Freeman.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownSaint Louis, MO
Height6'0"
Weight214 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey4

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

13 entries
🏆

ALL-AMERICA · UNANIMOUS

Unanimous AA (2025)

Named to 11 first-team selectors

🏅

POSITION AWARDS

Doak Walker

2025 season

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Heisman

Best official finish: #3

Finished in the top end of the Heisman vote on a completed ballot, which is a cleaner historical signal than model-only attention.

Finalist

1 finalist season

Invited into the official finalist tier in 2025. That belongs in the trophy case, not buried in a table.

All-America

12 All-America selections

National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.

Votes

Heisman votes in 1 season

Even lower-volume award recognition is worth preserving because it marks seasons where a player entered the national conversation.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2025 Doak Walker Position award Notre Dame · Doak Walker Winner · RB
2025 All-America (USA Today) All-America USA Today RB
2025 All-America (SI) All-America SI RB
2025 All-America (PFF) All-America PFF RB
2025 All-America (ESPN) All-America ESPN RB
2025 All-America (CBS) All-America CBS RB
2025 All-America (The Athletic) All-America The Athletic RB
2025 All-America (WCFF) All-America WCFF RB
2025 All-America (SN) All-America SN RB
2025 All-America (FWAA) All-America FWAA RB
2025 All-America (AP) All-America AP RB
2025 All-America (AFCA) All-America AFCA RB
2025 All-America (Consensus) All-America Notre Dame · Consensus --

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2025 Notre Dame RB3 #22 #22 1.3% 0.0% #3 finish 719 W22 snapshot | FBS Independents | Official finalist
2024 Notre Dame RB3 #1083 #792 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | FBS Independents
2023 Notre Dame RB3 #269 #251 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | FBS Independents

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Notre Dame FBS Independents RB 3 No. 4 | 6-0 | 214 lb | Saint Louis, MO
2024 Notre Dame FBS Independents RB 3 No. 4 | 6-0 | 214 lb | Saint Louis, MO
2023 Notre Dame FBS Independents RB 3 No. 4 | 6-0 | 214 lb | Saint Louis, MO