Jeremiyah Love: RB · Notre Dame · #4.
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Jeremiyah Love
Hits the crease and outruns the angle. Third year in the same backfield at Notre Dame. First career honor, 2025: All-America (Consensus). One game to point at: 228 rushing yards and 37 receiving yards against USC — Week 8, 2025.
Play style
Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.
Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share
Not actually a closer
47.8% of carries overall (197/412) → 21.3% of Q4-with-lead carries (23/108) — 78.3% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.
Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
8 of 14 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (57.1%). 26 of the team's 35 inside-the-5 carries (74.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Notre Dame | 199 | 1,372 | 6.9 | 18 | 94 |
| 2024 | Notre Dame | 163 | 1,125 | 6.9 | 17 | 98 |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 71 | 385 | 5.4 | 1 | 36 |
| Career | 433 | 2,882 | 6.7 | 36 | 98 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Notre Dame | 27 | 280 | 10.4 | 3 | 36 |
| 2024 | Notre Dame | 28 | 237 | 8.5 | 2 | 32 |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 8 | 77 | 9.6 | 1 | 33 |
| Career | 63 | 594 | 9.4 | 6 | 36 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-27@ No. 10 Miami | 10 | 33 | 3.3 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 3 | L 40-41vs No. 16 Texas A&M | 23 | 94 | 4.1 | 1 | 16 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-30vs Purdue | 19 | 157 | 8.3 | 2 | 46 | 157-yard day |
| Wk 5 | W 56-13@ Arkansas | 14 | 57 | 4.1 | 2 | 15 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-7vs Boise State | 16 | 103 | 6.4 | 1 | 36 | |
| Wk 7 | W 36-7vs NC State | 18 | 86 | 4.8 | 2 | 24 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-24vs No. 20 USC | 24 | 228 | 9.5 | 1 | 63 | Season-high 228 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 25-10@ Boston College | 17 | 136 | 8.0 | 2 | 94 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-10vs Navy | 13 | 94 | 7.2 | 2 | 48 | |
| Wk 12 | W 37-15@ No. 23 Pittsburgh | 23 | 147 | 6.4 | 1 | 56 | |
| Wk 13 | W 70-7vs Syracuse | 8 | 171 | 21.4 | 3 | 68 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 14 | W 49-20@ Stanford | 14 | 66 | 4.7 | 1 | 18 | |
| Total | 199 | 1372 | 6.9 | 18 | 94 |
Week 8 · 2025
W 34-24
vs USC
228 rush yds (24 car) · 1 TD · 5 rec · 37 yds
With J. Price — 87 rush yds (13 car) · 1 TD · J. Rendell — 49 yards per punt · 4 punts · 3 inside the 20
The plays that mattered most
Rush profile · Shape, efficiency, and ball security
How he gets his yards, and how often it works
Success rate
46%191 carriesFumble rate
0.5%1 of 199 carriesStuffed
0 or fewer ydsGrind
1–3 ydsChunk
4–9 ydsExplosive
10+ yds6.9 yds/carry on 199 carries · 17% explosive (10+ yds) · 46% success rate.
Receiver profile · Targets, catch rate, and throw depth
How often he's targeted, and how well it works
Targets
3311% of team targetsCatch rate
82%27 of 33 targetsBehind LOS · Negative air yds
Short · 0–9 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
82% catch rate on 33 targets · 11% of the team's targets.
Situational · Carry shape (PBP, full season)
Yardage DNA
Stuffed (≤0)
Grind (1–3)
Chunk (4–9)
Explosive (10+)
3 seasons under Marcus Freeman — 34-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 133 | 8.8 | 1.7 |
| Road5g | 87.8 | 5.3 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 88.3 | 5.2 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 140 | 9.5 | 1.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Marcus Freeman
Pass share
44.0%
321 pass / 409 run
Plays / game
60.8
12 games
Team sack rate
3.4%
349 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2025
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #4 at the position.
One of 52 players who were elite at two different things in 2025. See the others ›
Selector Grid · 2025
Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.
Career, closed
Gone at #3 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons at Notre Dame, 2,882 rushing yards, the Doak Walker Award (2025) — drafted at #3 overall by the Arizona Cardinals.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA · UNANIMOUS
Unanimous AA (2025)
Named to 11 first-team selectors
National awards
Doak Walker
2025 season
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
1 coachPlayed every college season under Marcus Freeman.
Next stop · NFL
Arizona Cardinals2026 NFL rookie season
Arizona Cardinals2026 NFL rookie season
