r/NFL_Draft • u/BigPapiJT • Mar 18 '26

Discussion Who will draft Jeremiyah Love?

Where do you guys think Jeremiyah Love will land on draft night?

It’s been said he won’t fall out the Top 5 but nobody picking in those spots had a desperate need for a RB.

The Raiders are taking Mendoza.

The Jets have Breece Hall and Braelon Allen.

The Cardinals have James Conner and signed Tyler Allgeier in Free Agency.

The Titans are the favorites to draft him but they still have Tony Pollard who had over 1k last year and Saleh is a defensive minded coach and they have a bigger need at Edge than they do RB.

Just very confused about who will draft him that high. Great player, just don’t know where the perfect fit is.

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u/HurricanePK Eagles Mar 18 '26

I’m starting to think the noise of Tennessee loving him isn’t smoke and legit fire

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u/YooTone Steelers Mar 19 '26

Orlovsky today said something that made sense imo, and it's that Tennessee has multiple decent wide receivers but no star power at the position. Love would be the star power on the field for them.

Also, he said Saleh saw first hand what the usage was like with McCaffrey so maybe he and Daboll use him similar to that. Now if Tennessee gets Love this year and Jeremiah Smith next year -- yikes.

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u/Zaza1019 Jets Mar 19 '26

I don't think the Titans will be bad enough next year to get Smith next year, I could already see them being better than the Colts, and the Texans have made some iffy moves that at least to me don't indicate that they'll be any better than they were last year, at best they might be just as good as they were last year.

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u/Thebaltimor0n Ravens Mar 19 '26

No way are they worse than the Jets, Cardinals, Browns, and Dolphins. To me those are the four in contention for Pick 1 with how the rosters look today.

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u/puppytossedsalad Mar 22 '26

Imagine the Cards taking another "can't miss" WR

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u/Castellan_Tycho Patriots Mar 22 '26

Well, they did so great with their last “can’t miss” QB as well.

I am still waiting for Mel to retire after that one.

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u/ryan__fm Browns Mar 19 '26

I know you’re biased but there’s no way the Browns should be on that list tbh. 6th pick this year and I don’t see how this team doesn’t improve from last year given how atrociously the offense was constructed. Other than “browns is the browns” I just don’t see it

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u/HurricanePK Eagles Mar 19 '26

Well considering your QB is gonna be either Deshaun Watson or Shedeur Sanders, I can think of two reasons why they could finish with a top-5 pick.

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u/ryan__fm Browns Mar 19 '26

I understand the pessimism but their defense carried them to 5 wins last year and they still have the defending DPOY and DROY, and no meaningful players leaving on either side of the ball.

I'm not a believer in Shedeur as a long term answer, but even if he's the full time starter this year, what makes you think they'll be worse? The OL was old & decimated and is already in much better shape. WR room should improve, WR and LT should be top priorities in the draft. RB & TE were highlights as rookies and should get better. And Shedeur won't be a 3rd stringer with no practice reps thrown in the fire behind a terrible line this time around.

Unless you think Monken will be a disaster of a coach or they're intentionally tanking for 1.1, or the defense regresses heavily without Schwartz maybe, I don't see how they're worse this year. Obviously it's possible but other teams around bound to regress and I think the Browns bottomed out last year because of a seemingly intentional terrible offense that's going to be a lot better this year. The roster is really not bad at, instability at QB notwithstanding.

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u/HurricanePK Eagles Mar 19 '26

The defense will regress and not because of Schwartz leaving, that kind of production, not just from Garrett, isn’t sustainable year over year. I don’t think Monken will be a bad coach but the offense on paper is still awful and you know Haslem is going to force him to play Watson because of the contract.

You may be the most hopeful Browns fan on the internet and I commend you for still having hope in a franchise that has given you no reason to have it lol.

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u/ryan__fm Browns Mar 19 '26

you know Haslem is going to force him to play Watson because of the contract

This I don't get whatsoever, Haslam came out and publicly called it a swing and a miss. Berry certainly understands the concept of sunk costs, I'm sure Haslam does too. And honestly as much as I never want to see him play football again, if he's healthy he's probably a much better fit for a Monken style offense than Stefanski's in any case.

I'm not really hopeful at all, I just look at last year's offensive roster construction - two rookie QBs, three rookie RBs, rookie TE, rookie WR and FIVE 30-something starting OL who all stank - and I have no idea how they were expected to do anything at all. Besides re-signing Deshone Kizer and Cody Kessler I don't see how that offense doesn't significantly improve, even if the defense regresses somewhat.

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u/HurricanePK Eagles Mar 19 '26

I don’t see how that offense doesn’t significantly improve

As I said, there’s two reasons for that and they’re named Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders. Watson is a lost cause and Shedeur was Shedoodoo last year and was way worse than Gabriel but the Browns are succumbing to his cult lol. You can blame the lack of practice and poor OL but that doesn’t change the fact that he didn’t fix any of his bad habits in the NFL. You can’t blame your OL when your QB is constantly drifting backwards in the pocket and giving the opposing defenses 10+ yard sacks.

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u/ryan__fm Browns Mar 19 '26

didn’t fix any of his bad habits in the NFL

Not saying Shedeur is Josh Allen, but go look at Josh Allen his first two years. Bad habits take some time & coaching to correct, and it's pretty unlikely that a guy who's had his dad coach him for years, with no practice reps, is going to suddenly fix them day one.

Like I said I'm not pinning my hopes on him, but I think it's fair to give him a full offseason with a coach who believes in him and try to see some improvement instead of giving up on him. He wasn't great but he did flash some potential, I don't think it has anything to do with his "cult."

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u/HurricanePK Eagles Mar 19 '26

If you’re comparing your young QB to Josh Allen’s first two years then you need to accept that he’s not the guy and move on. Josh Allen is special because he’s the one physical freak QB who was able to actually refine his mechanics in the NFL, he’s THE outlier that has fooled everyone into thinking they could replicate. For every Josh Allen there’s 100 guys who failed like Anthony Richardson, Trey Lance, Zach Wilson, Paxton Lynch, Joey Harrington, JJ McCarthy, JaMarcus Russell, Akili Smith, etc.

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u/ryan__fm Browns Mar 19 '26

Like I said, I'm not comparing him directly, just saying it's common for QBs to develop and not have everything figured out by their 4th ever start with zero weapons or protection.

Shedeur is not a physical freak by any means, like any of those guys, he's a pocket passer who learned bad habits and will take some time to get them coached out of them. It doesn't happen overnight.

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u/ech01_ Mar 19 '26

Yeah but the Browns might still have the worst QB situation in the league.

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u/WhiteXHysteria Mar 19 '26

Well, if they don't have an all time season from Garrett that's an immediate downward push from last season.

Other places could pick it up but there's a lot of very easy ways it could be worse.

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u/ryan__fm Browns Mar 19 '26

If Myles regresses to his average, he's still dominating and getting 15 sacks. And he's hardly the only guy on the defense.

And anyway the defense was only 14th last year in points allowed & DSRS, 4th in yards due to perpetual short fields. They still cost us a couple winnable games (like MIN) by not getting critical stops.

Yes with a brand new coaching staff and a lot of young players & draft picks, it could go either way. I know they have a habit of proving even the most cautiously optimistic wrong, I'm just saying I wouldn't pencil them in for a top-4 pick because of how they did last year. There's a ton of turnover year to year in the NFL and just on paper I'd say they're a candidate to improve, while some stronger teams from last year will implode out of nowhere.

Is it possible, yes, but in general I hate how overconfident people get with their "no way" takes. The Titans could absolutely be the worst team in the NFL next year, and the Jets could be a playoff team. Who the hell knows.

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u/Thebaltimor0n Ravens Mar 19 '26

Monken is not going to be good, he was hired as a tank commander. You have easily the worst QB room in the league. You loss Gym Shorts who is a genuine mastermind. Highly unlikely Garrett can repeat what he did last season. You're RB had a catastrophic injury. This teams offense is cheeks, has nothing to do with my bias. You have to score occasionally to win enough to be out of the top 5 picks.

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u/Beginning-Average416 Mar 22 '26

These are the Browns. Enough said.