Even though the Arizona Cardinals made Jeremiyah Love the highest-drafted running back since 2018, they don’t intend to overwhelm him with touches in his rookie season. <\/p>\n
Per Albert Breer<\/a> of SI.com, the Cardinals’ plan for the regular season is to avoid overloading Love by finding the “right rotation” with him, James Conner and Tyler Allgeier. <\/p>\n Arizona used the No. 3 pick in the 2026 draft on Love, making him the first running back selected in the top five since Barkley went No. 2 overall eight years ago. <\/p>\n Fantasy managers are almost as eager to add Love as the Cardinals were. His average draft position<\/a> in PPR leagues is No. 21 overall, sandwiched between Derrick Henry and Brock Bowers. <\/p>\n That’s lofty company to keep in fantasy because Henry finished as the RB8<\/a> last season. Bowers’ 2025 was down from his historic rookie campaign due to a knee injury that limited him to 12 games, but he still averaged the second-most<\/a> fantasy points per game among tight ends. <\/p>\n It will also be interesting to see how the Cardinals offense operates under first-year head coach Mike LaFleur. He has an incredible background after previously working under Kyle Shanahan with the San Francisco 49ers and Sean McVay with the Los Angeles Rams. <\/p>\n Even in a potential timeshare role with Conner and Allgeier, Love seems almost certain to get the bulk of the touches. He also has a strong pass-catching resume with 55 receptions over the past two seasons at Notre Dame. <\/p>\n The Cardinals figure to be in a lot of high-scoring games this season, creating plenty of opportunities for all of the skill-position players on the roster to get a lot of run. <\/p>\n If Love finishes the season closer to 250 touches instead of 300, it will knock his overall fantasy value down. But the per-game impact still figures to be very high given his pedigree and the Cardinals needing to score a lot of points to win games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though the Arizona Cardinals made Jeremiyah Love the highest-drafted running back since 2018, they don’t intend to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-831884","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\/831884","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=831884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}