Is the running back en vogue again? <\/p>\n
The Cardinals selected Jeremiyah Love at No. 3 overall on Thursday night, making him the league\u2019s highest-drafted running back since the Giants picked Saquon Barkley at No. 2 overall back in 2018. <\/p>\n
Speaking with Cardinals media after the selection on Thursday night, Love said it was not a surprise to get the call from Arizona.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had great dialogue with [General Manager] Monti [Ossenfort] a few weeks ago,\u201d Love said, via transcript from the team. \u201cAfter David [Bailey] got picked, I kind of had a feeling I would get a call from the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a blessing being able to have the opportunity to go to Arizona and I\u2019m ready for it. I\u2019m ready for the opportunity, and I\u2019m just ready to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Love also called it \u201cvery special\u201d to be one of the highest drafted running backs in several years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the opportunity to really set a new standard for running backs,\u201d Love said. \u201cWe\u2019ve already had Saquon, we\u2019ve had Bijan [Robinson], and we\u2019ve had Ashton [Jeanty]. Now you have me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my job and my duty to make sure that when I step foot in Arizona, that I do what I\u2019ve got to do to represent the running backs and represent Arizona in the right way, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do coming into the league. I\u2019m going to make sure I represent the right way and I\u2019m very blessed to have this opportunity. I\u2019m just ready to work and do what I\u2019ve got to do to have success.\u201d<\/p>\n
Does that put any more weight on him to perform?<\/p>\n
\u201cNo added pressure at all,\u201d Love said. \u201cI try not to listen to a lot of things that are said about me, whether they are good or bad. I know I was just picked as the third overall pick in the NFL Draft, but I\u2019m still myself at the end of the day. I still have the same work ethic, and it\u2019s going to get better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still just Jeremiyah Love, man. I\u2019m still on the hunt for something greater than this. That hunt is never going to stop, so there\u2019s no pressure here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is the running back en vogue again? The Cardinals selected Jeremiyah Love at No. 3 overall on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-603080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}