In this video, we're going to be ranking the 10 best running backs in this year's NFL

draft. These are the incoming rookies, and this is sort of a weird class. It's not known as like the best running back class or the deepest, but there's still some names in here that should be productive. And one that is a virtual lock to be productive is the number one player on this rankings. It should be pretty obvious. The number one running back is going to be Jeremiah Love out of Notre Dame. Now let's break it down. He's an elite prospect. He tested at the

combine when he didn't even have to and he was six foot, 212 pounds, but that's not all that he did. He went there as just a 20 year old. He's coming out a year earlier. His junior year. These are all positives. And he ran a 4-36-40 time. Now, at the end of the day, Jeremiah Love is probably bigger than 212 pounds.

He probably plays closer to 220 pounds, so he probably slimmed down to run faster at the combine, but his stats are going to say that he runs a 4-36, and he has all the speed in the world, so it's not really a concern if he's maybe a 4-4 guy. He's NFL ready. He's coming out a year early. he had multiple years of production at Notre Dame where they were playing the best teams in the country.

Two years ago in 2024, going to the college football. NFL ready. He's coming out a year early. He had multiple years of production at Notre Dame where

they were playing the best teams in the country. Two years ago in 2024, going to the college football

playoff, facing the best of the best, going to the finals in that year, having 1,100 yards,

having 19 touchdowns. Last year doubles down with 1,300 rushing yards, almost 1,400,

21 rushing yards. When you combine that with his 280 receiving yards and a solid target share of 10.5%. These are all really good numbers. Jeremiah Love last year was putting up nearly 1,700 total yards. He was doing this while competing with Judarian Price and his own backfield, who will probably go on like the third round of this year's NFL draft as well. You might see him, you probably will, hint, hint in this video.

So he's checking all the boxes.

Tough competition, tough opponents he played against, productive at a big school. He has the speed. He has the size. What's not to like? Well, honestly, nothing. Like the only blemish maybe on his entire year last year was that in the first game of the year, when the offenses are a little bit rusty in the passing games,

and there's new personnel and new coaches

against a top 10 Miami team that went to the college football playoff, one of the best defenses in the nation, Jeremiah Love only had 10 carries 33 yards, but then what does he do after that? He rips off against a ranked A&M team, 94 yards when you factor in his receiving over 100 against Purdue, 157 yards, multiple touchdown Boise State 100 yards has this big game against a ranked USC for 228 yards and a touchdown. Big game against a good pit team ranked 147 yards and a touchdown. So he's battle tested. He had the big games. He's explosive. He can get to the second level. Again, I'll say it again. what's not to like? What Jeremiah Love is known for is his explosiveness, he's shifty, he can handle 20 plus touches a game as a three down back, and he's a weapon in the passing game. If you wanted to say there was a downside to his profile, it's probably past protection, but again, he's 20 years old, he's coming out a year earlier. He's probably going to improve this a ton before even NFL training camp start and then definitely by week one. So I think that's going to be fine for him. He'll be coached up. If you're looking at it right now on where he's going to go, he's a sure thing, top 10 pick, maybe even a top five pick right now. Consensus mocks are putting him, as you can see right here on mock draft database to the Titans at number four overall. That makes sense. Their current running back room is Tony Pollard and Tajay Spears, who is a running back who's older at this point. And Tony Pollard, Taday Spears, who's coming up on his rookie contract being over. He's also a guy who has a knee injury that's probably not going to give him a lot of longevity in the NFL. They need a running back. Why not?

Maybe the second best, third best player in this entire class.

And that's at overall prospects. Obviously, he's the best running back in this class. That's why he's my number one. If you look at some other sites too, like PFF, wherever you want to look, whatever source you say is more trusted. They all have him going as a top five pick. Now, my number two running back in this class, and this is where things can start to get wonky, is Jadarian Price.

And that is the guy we mentioned earlier, the running mate for Jeremiah Love over at Notre Dame. He's weighed in at the NFL Combine, 5-11, 203 pounds. So he got

over that 200-pound mark, right, where people will start to freak out if he's not 200 pounds,

even though it doesn't matter a ton, just look at Jamesames cook waiting in around 199 pounds jimmyr gibbs right at 200 pounds all this and then he weighed in at the combine and he ran and a lot of people said this was a bad day for him i mean it wasn't great he runs a 4-4-9 which is fine 66 percentile speed 65 percentile burst like he was never known to be an elite athlete so he comes out he tests slightly above average like yeah sure it's not an elite prospect, but it's nothing that's going to bury him. Sure, he could help himself if he ran faster or showed more bursts and jumps at the combine, but I don't think this buries him. In terms of NFL.com, they ranked him amongst all the running backs with the third best total score from the 2026 combine. This is factoring in the production in terms of some of the skills that do do there,

the gauntlet drill, just pass catching, all that type of stuff. And then the athleticism score

where he ranks seventh overall. Again, a weaker class, but he factored in third overall there.

His RAS score, relative athletic score, as you can see right here, Jadarian Price, tested overall

with an 8.76. Where does this have him rank? He ranks at 263rd out of over 2,000 running backs. So almost the top 10% to attend the combine. So yeah, when you compare it to his teammate Jeremiah Love or some of the other freak athlete who tested at the combine, like we'll talk about later in this video of Mike Washington or Seth McGowan, it's not going to look as good. But overall, for running backs his size attending the combine, it's fine. Now, the spot that starts to get murky for Judarian Price is that he really doesn't have a lot of college production because the past two years, 120 carries, 113 carries, he was playing behind Jeremiah Love. Now, he was sort of this change of pace role. And even in that role, he averaged over six yards per carry the last two years, 746 rushing yards, 674 the last two years. So like this was still a guy who was getting production, was getting on the field, was taking Jeremiah Love off the field at times because he was so productive. But the big downside, look at this passing game profile. Only in his college career in three seasons where yeah yeah, he's playing as a backup and you saw he

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