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Before Jeremiyah Love has taken an NFL snap, seasoned moving backs already must beryllium beautiful suspicious of him.
That's because nan 3rd wide prime of past month's NFL Draft officially signed his rookie woody of $53 cardinal connected Friday.
Love's woody is nan astir guaranteed money ever fixed to a moving backmost successful NFL history, by a wide margin.
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Arizona Cardinals moving backmost Jeremiyah Love runs during rookie minicamp astatine nan Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center successful Tempe, Arizona, connected May 8, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)
The erstwhile grounds was nan $36 cardinal Saquon Barkley sewage by signing pinch nan Philadelphia Eagles successful 2025. Just beneath him is Ashton Jeanty's rookie woody of $35.9 million.
Love impressed pinch Notre Dame and changeable up nan draught boards, and nan Arizona Cardinals did not fto him gaffe past them.
He ran for 1,372 yards and 18 touchdowns this past play for nan Fighting Irish, while surpassing 100 yards successful six of his 14 showings. He moreover rushed for a whopping 228 yards against nan USC Trojans.
Love became nan highest drafted moving backmost since nan New York Giants selected Barkley 2nd wide retired of Penn State successful 2018. And he joins a Cardinals discourtesy that will beryllium revamped nether caller caput coach Mike LaFleur.
Arizona Cardinals moving backmost Jeremiyah Love runs during rookie minicamp astatine nan Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center successful Tempe, Arizona, connected May 8, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)
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Despite nan payday, though, Love has already decided that he is going to beryllium observant pinch his money.
"I’m not spending immoderate of my NFL checks," Love said to BRGridiron. "All that money, my financial advisor’s going to return attraction of each of that. I don’t cognize astir it, it ain’t my job. It’s going to beryllium location making much and much money."
Instead, Love said he would walk his endorsement money during his career. Even then, he isn’t reasoning astir a lavish lifestyle for himself.
"First point I mightiness bargain pinch my trading money is simply a location for my parents, car for my dad," he explained. "Shoot, I’m gonna put myself last. I’m going to return attraction of my family first."
The moving backmost marketplace stalled for rather a while, but successful caller offseasons, it seems for illustration beforehand offices person reversed course.
Jeremiyah Love of Notre Dame celebrates aft being selected arsenic nan 3rd wide prime by nan Arizona Cardinals during nan first information of nan 2026 NFL Draft astatine Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, Pa., connected April 23, 2026. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)
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But if Love does not unrecorded up to nan payday, it could beryllium a trendsetter for really beforehand offices position nan position successful nan future.
Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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