{"id":350765,"date":"2025-12-17T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350765\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:12:14","slug":"notre-dames-jeremiyah-love-declares-for-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350765\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love declares for NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 16, 2025, 09:01 PM ET<\/p>\n

Jeremiyah Love<\/a>, the star Notre Dame<\/a> running back and Heisman Trophy finalist, made it official Tuesday night and declared for the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

Love made the announcement on social media, thanking his family, Fighting Irish coaches and teammates, among others, and saying he “could not have picked a better place for me to grow into the man I am today.”<\/p>\n

Love is widely expected to be the top running back selected in next year’s draft.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot, 214-pounder is projected to go No. 3 in Mel Kiper Jr.’s latest Big Board<\/a> for ESPN, and Field Yates has him going 14th to the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in his latest mock draft.<\/p>\n

Love scored 21 all-purpose touchdowns in 2025, passing Jerome Bettis (1991) for the most in a season in Notre Dame history. The junior also ended the regular season fourth nationally with 1,372 rushing yards and third with 18 rushing touchdowns, averaging 6.89 yards per carry.<\/p>\n

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He finished third in Heisman voting behind winner Fernando Mendoza<\/a>, the quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, and Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia<\/a>. And he was Notre Dame’s first winner of the Doak Walker Award, given to the top running back in college football.<\/p>\n

Love’s junior season already has ended because Notre Dame (10-2) didn’t make the College Football Playoff and opted against playing in a bowl.<\/p>\n

As a sophomore, Love rushed for 1,125 yards and 17 touchdowns on 163 carries, helping Notre Dame reach the CFP championship game, which it lost 34-23 to Ohio State. He had 28 catches for 237 yards and two touchdowns that season.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 16, 2025, 09:01 PM ET Jeremiyah Love, the star Notre Dame running back and Heisman Trophy finalist,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-350765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}