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Regardless, he is a player who can get offensive touches in a variety of ways and has home run speed from any part of the field. Will need to settle into an offensive system and role in college, but has the pre-requisite tools to be a difference maker.<\/p>\nThe Runnings Backs Who Rated Ahead of Jeremiyah Love<\/p>\n
Love was rated as the fifth-best running back in the class, according to the 247Sports composite. Your thought when reading that may have been: who seriously rated above him?<\/p>\n
Well, here’s your answer – as all players wound up enrolling at SEC programs.<\/p>\n
4. Richard Young – Alabama
To date, Young has run for 234 yards and five touchdowns on 59 carries in three seasons with the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n
3. Reuben Owens II – Texas A&M<\/p>\n
Owens has remained at Texas A&M and been able to get on the field regularly. In three seasons he’s totaled 1,090 rushing yards and 245 receiving yards while totaling eight touchdowns.<\/p>\n
2. Justice Haynes – Alabama
Haynes spent two seasons at Alabama before transferring to Michigan last year. He had a coming out party with the Wolverines, rushing for 857 yards and averaging 7.1 yards per carry as a junior.<\/p>\n
1. CJ Baxter – Texas
After getting a heavy load as a freshman and 162 touches, Baxter has been slowed by injuries since. He’s played in just nine games over the last two seasons and hasn’t scored a touchdown since going for five his freshman year.<\/p>\n
Nick Shepkowski’s Thoughts on Jeremiyah Love<\/p>\n
Jeremiyah Love was the “next step” for Notre Dame at the running back position. He came in a year after Jadarian Price, and turned into truly one of the best to ever wear a gold helmet.<\/p>\n
When Love came to Notre Dame you couldn’t help but think he had the chance to be a very good one, but I don’t know if anyone had Heisman Trophy finalist and potential top-five pick pegged for his career.<\/p>\n
Love still has an NFL career to officially get started, but when we look back on his time at Notre Dame, we’ll see a player who clearly helped elevate what some thought Notre Dame was possible of accomplishing on a football field in the modern day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love likely won’t have to wait very long to hear his name called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-575631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}