Jeremiyah Love signs rookie deal that gives him most guaranteed money by running back before taking NFL snap

Before Jeremiyah Love has taken an NFL snap, seasoned moving backs already indispensable beryllium beauteous jealous of him.

That's due to the fact that the 3rd wide prime of past month's NFL Draft officially signed his rookie woody of $53 cardinal connected Friday.

Love's woody is the astir guaranteed wealth 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 the Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center successful Tempe, Arizona, connected May 8, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

The erstwhile grounds was the $36 cardinal Saquon Barkley got by signing with the Philadelphia Eagles successful 2025. Just beneath him is Ashton Jeanty's rookie woody of $35.9 million.

Love impressed with Notre Dame and changeable up the draught boards, and the Arizona Cardinals did not fto him gaffe past them.

He ran for 1,372 yards and 18 touchdowns this past play for the Fighting Irish, portion surpassing 100 yards successful six of his 14 showings. He adjacent rushed for a whopping 228 yards against the USC Trojans.

Love became the highest drafted moving backmost since the New York Giants selected Barkley 2nd wide retired of Penn State successful 2018. And helium joins a Cardinals discourtesy that volition beryllium revamped nether caller caput manager Mike LaFleur.

Arizona Cardinals moving backmost Jeremiyah Love runs during rookie minicamp astatine the Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center successful Tempe, Arizona, connected May 8, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

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Despite the payday, though, Love has already decided that helium is going to beryllium cautious with his money.

"I’m not spending immoderate of my NFL checks," Love said to BRGridiron. "All that money, my fiscal advisor’s going to instrumentality attraction of each of that. I don’t cognize astir it, it ain’t my job. It’s going to beryllium determination making much and much money."

Instead, Love said helium would walk his endorsement wealth during his career. Even then, helium isn’t reasoning astir a lavish lifestyle for himself.

"First happening I mightiness bargain with my selling wealth is simply a location for my parents, car for my dad," helium explained. "Shoot, I’m gonna enactment myself last. I’m going to instrumentality attraction of my household first."

The moving backmost marketplace stalled for rather a while, but successful caller offseasons, it seems similar beforehand offices person reversed course.

Jeremiyah Love of Notre Dame celebrates aft being selected arsenic the 3rd wide prime by the Arizona Cardinals during the archetypal circular of the 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 the payday, it could beryllium a trendsetter for however beforehand offices presumption the presumption successful the future.

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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