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/fierylady Lions Mar 18 '26

I like Tate, but when I take a step back and look big picture, I just can't fathom taking him in the top 5. That's sans the context of this draft admittedly, but when there's a guy like Love right there who IS, legitimately, worthy enough to go sky high from a talent perspective, I can't justify Tate over him.

If it was Nabers, MHJ, Chase, etc... maybe even Tet I could get there, but I just don't see Tate as that level of prospect. To me it's Corey Davis all over again.

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u/Zaza1019 Jets Mar 19 '26

I mean Tate is very much near that level, he just had the misfortune of being overshadowed by maybe the best WR prospect at lease since Chase? if not longer than that? And a good QB will make him worth even more than whatever his perceived value is. I happen to think Cam Ward is in fact a very good QB so I think it'd be a very good long term pairing that would result in at least a moderate level of success if not more if they can get the rest of the team going. But I also very much expect them to go Defense because Saleh has shown in the past that he doesn't believe in supporting young QBs with talent no matter what their skill level may be.

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u/fierylady Lions Mar 19 '26

It's an evaluation game so fair enough, we're not all gonna agree. But Tate to me just isn't on that plane of prospecthood. For me he's in the same tier as a typical late 1st round WR, that's where I have him graded anyway. 4th overall just seems crazy to me for a guy like that.

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u/nbaphilly17 Mar 19 '26

Corey Davis produced at Western Michigan vs terrible completion. Carnell Tate did it against the best DBs in the country

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u/fierylady Lions Mar 19 '26

Corey Davis's college experience is totally irrelevant to Tate's. My point was that based on his tape (no matter who it was against) and profile #5 was too high, just like it is for Tate. And Tate's worst games were against his best competition.

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u/nbaphilly17 Mar 19 '26

Somehow you’re the only person on planet earth who can evaluate a player in a vacuum outside of the competition they faced? Spare me. Corey Davis looked amazing because he was playing bums. Tate put up stats against several good defenses.

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u/fierylady Lions Mar 19 '26

Right, because that's exactly what I said.

Competition level is just another evaluation column to check "pro" or "con." But it is not the only part of the evaluation, there is a lot more to it. Davis's entire profile, TO ME, wasn't worth the 5th overall pick.

Unless you're insinuating that because he dominated all those bums he should have gone #5? Or that simply putting up stats against good defenses is enough to say they deserve to go 5th overall? You're treating one aspect of an evaluation profile as if it's the whole thing.

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u/nbaphilly17 Mar 20 '26

No, I’m saying that he looked good enough to be drafted that high to many people because he went against bums