pre-draft treat: J-Love career highlights

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I'm a little surprised. He was an important part of IU's OL last year. I know those IOL guys don't get a lot of love in the draft but I wouldn't be surprised to see him have a good NFL career.

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Not sure if they can fix the guy but they do need an heir at the position with A. Rodgers turning 43 during the season.

Then again this could be Christian Hackenburg Pt Deux.

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At least they seem to be dedicating the early parts of the draft to their running game

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three of the four starting RBs in the NFC West, possibly the best division in the league.

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From 2001 (Bettis's last 1,000-yard season) until 2020, Julius Jones and Ryan Grant were the only ND running backs who were ever their team's lead guy.

To now simultaneously have 3 guys in the league who will be bell cows is a pretty huge deal.

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Fields should go today, right?

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Was listening to Nate Tice on the Solid Verbal (don't ask me his credentials other than he writes for Yahoo! Sports). But he likes him as one of the most complete TEs in the draft. Athletic and his tape has shown he's an effective inline blocker.

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Raridon and Schrauth both possible. Wagner and maybe Pauling or Smith tomorrow.

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award, right?

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The last before Alt was Rick Mirer back in '93.

(This is admittedly an arbitrary cut line. Q and Stanley both went #6. So did Tim Brown. But it does suggest that ND is getting back in the business of putting high-end players in the NFL.)

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but there's a small chance Seattle could take him. If he's still available in the 2nd round and the Niners pass on him I will break stuff. They can't keep giving McCaffrey 900 touches a year.

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How can you not love this guy?

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while the clock was counting down, and they were freaking out.

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We need a clean sweep of ND RBs in the NFC West.

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Enjoy the quality of life.

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The 2007 ND-UCLA game was a once in a lifetime experience, I hope

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Really happy for him

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come here. Get NFL caliber coaching. Even if you have to split time you can still be taken in the 1st round.

To players on the current roster with itchy feet -- wait your turn. Learn a system. Even if you never get penciled in as a starter, you can be a 1st round pick.

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I feel like RBs only have so many carries in a career. Splitting time while still getting meaningful snaps means you’ll have a better chance of a longer NFL career.

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I saw a comparison that Love had 400-some carries in his career and Jeanty (Boise State) had over 700.

Watching that highlight film Jay posted, which isn't just Love's untouched long runs for TD, reminded me what a beating RBs take. He turned so many 5-yard runs into 10-yard runs by getting low and dragging guys with him.

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...he needs to transfer somewhere he can be RB1". Wrong.

...he needs to stick around for another year and prove he can be a lead back". Wrong again!

What I love most about this is that JDs unselfish attitude really paid off in the end. Hope the staff will use his story as an example for others. "Delayed gratification".

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But Price is probably going to end up in a better spot than Love, but $40M poorer.

I don’t know much about the Cardinals, but their offense seems like it’s a bit of a mess and my Google search described their OL as “patchwork.”

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when they let Walker go I wondered what they had in mind. Price would have been the feature back at almost every other school. He's not quite as fast as Love but he's comfortably under 4.5. Excellent vision. Tough to bring down. Not quite as accomplished in the pass game. But when he came into the game, I never felt like we were taking a step back.

And it's easy to forget some of the huge plays he made, like the KO return against USC.

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1993 had 4 ND first rounders:

2 - Rick Mirer (Seahawks)

10 - Jerome Bettis (Rams)

17 - Tom Carter (Redskins)

and I had forgotten

20 - Irv Smith (Saints)

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Young, Taylor and Burris.

Seven in two years is something I could see Freeman approaching or even matching once his death star is fully operational.

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McFadden / Felix
Cadillac / Ronnie ?

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there was another RB picked between them: Cedric Benson at No. 4 to the Bears.

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The Wild Hog formation would fall out of favor after Bobby crashed his motorcyle.

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who averaged less than 10 plays per game while in college is Jadarian Price -- end of list. Feel pretty confident about that.

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I don’t think Price ever started a game for Notre Dame at RB. He may have technically “started” on special teams but I don’t know if that counts.

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1. On its face that's really high for a guy thought to be a late 20s pick. The Rams must have caught wind of someone else who really liked him for them to grab him mid-first.

2. McVay has shown me he knows what he's doing. If he (Simpson) had went somewhere with a less renouned offensive mind I'd probably question the selection.

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says the Niners fan. They probably could've traded down a few spots and still got him. A lot of these reaches for QBs in the mid to late first round haven't panned out until they got traded (if at all). Goff, Mac Jones, Kenny Pickett, etc. But from Simpson's standpoint, this is an ideal landing spot.

The other thing is that despite Bama havig two picks thus far, they sucked last year. They were 11-4 and barely had a 10 ppg margin. Their big win against UGA was wiped out in the SEC championship game and UGA didn't prove to fearsome. They beat an Oklahoma team that was the worst team in the playoffs from a major conference and then to absolutely embarrassed by IU.

Bama and OU had no business in the playoffs ahead of NY and BYU.

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and the Rams draft record speaks for itself. I was very anti on Simpson Eh but the Rams taking him so early has me rethinking that opinion.

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He and the GM held an interview last night (sorry, not in a position to link it). The GM was talking Simpson up a lot whereas McVay came across as kinda ticked-off and annoyed, honestly.

Kinda has the feeling of "we were really close to winning a Super Bowl last year, and our MVP-winning quarterback is 38 years old; why aren't we picking someone that can help us win a ring this year?"

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Freeman's got so much riz they need to call him Aura Parseghian

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Brady Quinn
Jeff Samardizjia
Golden Tate
Mike Floyd
Manti Te'o
Zack Martin
Quenton Nelson
Will Fuller
Jaylon Smith
Julian Love
Kyle Hamilton
JOK
Kyren Williams
Joe Alt
Xavier Watts
Leonard Moore
Jeremiyah Love

IF I were to split these guys into categories:

MOST PURELY OUTSTANDING
Love
Tate
Nelson
Hamilton
Jaylon Smith

MVP TYPES
Quinn
Martin
Smith
Te'o
Kyren Williams
Alt
Watts
Moore
Nelson
Love

GUYS ON BOTH LISTS
Love
Smith
Nelson

I think it's among those three guys

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the player led the team to a playoff game/title contending season, that eliminates Jaylon.

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I might bump Martin to both categories in your ranking system. He's probably the only OL in college that made Aaron Donald look human.

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If he'd been able to stay for 2012 it might be a different conversation

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only a single season at the correct position and with proper coaching. His last year, he had both, and he was pretty awesome.

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Te'o did a great job as an ILB but he also was dependent mightily on having a clean DL front occupying blockers so he could get a clear path to the ball. He was a perfect player for Diaco's D, but as we saw in Miami and really in the non-2012 years, Diaco's scheme was basic enough to have a pretty hard ceiling.

A guy like Watts - smart, instinctual, organized, and athletic enough to man-cover from the safety position let Golden get to a whole different level. I think there's a strong argument to be made for Watts as the cornerstone player of the early Freeman Era. Think of it this way, if you'd had a chance to put Te'o on the 2024 defense, I don't think it would have appreciably raised the unit's ceiling. If you gave me a choice between adding Te'o and losing Watts from last year's defense, or just keeping Watts, I'm keeping #0 every time.

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Good luck picking one.

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#Team128

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Its natural given the way things unraveled and how his NFL career didn't pan out to lessen his impact in retrospect, but he was absolutely tremendous. It's tragic that he got caught in two larger forces--the internet and shifting defensive demands--that resulted in an athletic demise.

Glad to see that he appears to be doing well, though.

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Although maybe not the physical freak that Jaylon Smith was, I'd still put him ahead. Te'o was amazing and all he could be, but Jaylon was kind of squandered in the Van Gorder defense.

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Really good player, great story, everyone wanted it to be more than it was, and ultimately it wasn't. I have a lot of fondness for him and he was a really good player but from a purely football perspective he was in my mind clearly a notch below a guy like Jaylon Smith even, to say nothing of a Top 5 pick like Love or all-time greats for the position like Martin and Nelson

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outside of Mike Anello

https://youtu.be/pItoBGX5JF8

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he definitely took advantage of the times he was on the field.

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other contenders -- Floyd, T'eo, Nelson, Hamilton.

If I had to pick an early leader for the #1 overall pick in 2027 it would be Carr.

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Google this “Coach Google me”.

It would be a mistake to think we will forget that they went out of their way to screw ND last season.

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One of the greatest runs in football history.

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It must have had the scientific community recalculating the effects of gravity.

And the commentators do not give enough emphasis to the pipe hit he made subsequent to landing.

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Montana's TD against Clemson in 1977 kept a NC alive. Penick's run against USC in 1973. There are a few others. But it was huge.

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Hunter's run in the 1976 South Carolina game to seal it IIRC.

My first ND game ever.

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Feature on Landow's NFL prep regimen. Some good stuff in here.

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the Polo Grounds

pre-draft treat: J-Love career highlights

Coogan didn't go until the 6th round --

He's a center and not great. 6th round seems just right.

Schrauth to TB in the 5th round.

Tampa has had a strong draft IMO

FWIW, Drew Allar went in Rd 3 to Pittsburgh

The '27 draft should be loaded at QB

his new Delta pledge name is Jill Stein

Fields to the Giants in the 3rd round (74th overall)

Cards drafted an OG at the top of Round 2

Good to see

But then their next pick is Carson Beck. SMH.

How about ND now having...

Remarkable considering the drought for most of the century

who else will get drafted?

Raridon is getting some chatter.

Raridon went to NE in Rd 3 with the 95th pick.

Fields likely today

That's over 30min long, and it's so hard to stop watching.

What a tremendous day for these guys. And ND football.

Remind me. He won the Heisman and OLine won Joe Moore

Second time in three years an ND player has gone top 5.

I'm not really expecting Price to get drafted tonight --

Must Watch. ND released a video of Price's phone call

This might be an even better JP video

That was great. Thanks.

That interview is better. Thanks for posting it.

Seattle apparently had to scramble to get Price’s phone #

That's great!

Can the Niners trade for Estime?

Not a bad idea. I'm still pissed they passed on Kyren.

Congrats to Jadarian. He gets to live in Seattle!

And the maple bars!

That's a really great pull.

And play for a Super Bowl contender

Done!

It has to be a boost to recruiting both HS and portal --

Keep the miles off too…

That helped both Love and Price --

"If Price wants to be a first-round pick...

I know it’s been said back here many times

It's a brilliant pick by Seattle --

#32

Somebody here knows: When’s our last 2-1st Rounders Draft?

was going down memory lane

And three more the next year

Only two other times 2 RBs from same school in 1st round.

Without looking it up -

Nicely done. Cadillac and Ronnie were both top 5 picks.

And yet, emblematic of that era

It was indeed a different time.

Nelson and McGlinchey both went top ten their year.

Thx. I suspect we won’t have to wait long to happen again

Like Carr and Moore?

Tae

Nailed It!

The list of first-round NFL draft picks

Has there ever been a first round pick who never started?

In Other Draft News - Rams draft Ty Simpson @15

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McVay is a wizard

Interestingly, McVay did not sound happy about the pick

interesting

Best ND player of the 2000s?

Serious Nominees would be

That's a fair analysis. And if we include a requirement that

No Harrison Smith?

He was really good in college, but a better pro

Hayseed is a unique case. He was allowed to play

I think he was better than Watts in college

Watts' VORP was way higher than Te'o's

I think it's one of those 3 as well.

I think Teo has to be more seriously considered

best defensive highlight reel for sure

I kinda think he's emblematic of the 1997-2021 era at ND

Agreed. Athletically he was not at their level.

Best skill position player since Rocket

definitely owns the best highlight reel

That was kind of nice to watch --