Jeremiyah Love is a first-round pick for sure. The former Notre Dame star looks like he's almost certainly a Top 5 pick. However, if Jordan Rodgers had his druthers, it sounds like the running back wouldn't even go in the Top 10. The ESPN analyst laid out his outrageous take on Thursday morning's Get Up, claiming Love is not a "generational player."
The biggest issue for Rodgers and some other analysts was the money Arizona would need to devote to Love if it selected him No. 3 in Thursday night's NFL Draft. That argument is similar to other arguments around Arizona having too many holes to take Love. However, Rodgers then went way too far by claiming he's not really all that good.
'Under no circumstances' should Cardinals select the Notre Dame football star
"Under no circumstance can you take Jeremiah Love No. 3," Rodgers said before going into depth about how he thinks Love doesn't measure up to guys like Saquon Barkley, who was the No. 2 pick in the 2018 draft. Barkley was also the last running back to get drafted in the Top 3.
"Under no circumstance can you take Jeremiyah Love number three. ... He's not a generational player."@JRodgers11 doesn't believe Jeremiyah Love should go high in the draft 👀 pic.twitter.com/c7ycy7dAp0
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) April 23, 2026
"You're gonna owe him $50 million in guaranteed money. That's more than Saquon, more than Christian McCaffrey, more than Derek Henry. You can't do that, especially when you don't have a quarterback. You don't have an offensive identity right now. You can't add a player like that and expect to then take the next step with a running back. It doesn't happen."
"I love Jeremiah Love as a prospect, but also he's not a generational player. If you go back and look at college, he didn't do great against the best defenses he played. He got shut down last year in a bowl game. I mean, that early 2025 against Ohio State had like eight total yards. Miami shut him down week one, and then they didn't really play anybody after that."
Notre Dame star is the best player in the draft and the best running back in years
It's worth noting that Love got "shut down" against Ohio State, in large part because Notre Dame needed to throw almost constantly in the second half after trailing 21-7 at the half and 31-7 before they rallied and made it a game.
It's also worth noting that Jordan Rodgers is one of the only people on the planet who claimed the issue with the Cardinals taking Jeremiyah Love is that he's "not good enough." It's an opinion that sounds more ridiculous by the minute.
The Notre Dame football star should probably fall to No. 4 and No. 5 simply because those teams have other pieces in place that would better complement the star running back. But the ESPN analyst will eventually eat his words about Jeremiyah Love as a generational talent.
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