Running Back · Arizona Cardinals

Jeremiyah Love

No. 4 · Rookie

Fourteen touches, one ankle, and a Thursday that changes the reading.

Jeremiyah Love got the ball early and often in his preseason debut—fourteen touches in the first half alone, a workload that said the Arizona Cardinals were serious about what they were building with him. Then an ankle injury arrived, the kind of moment that can reset everything for a young player still proving he belongs.

But Love stayed in the game. His coach, Mike LaFleur, said afterward that Love was fine, that he could have kept going. It was a small detail in a preseason Thursday against the Raiders, the kind of thing that might not land anywhere else. For Love, though, it was a statement made under pressure—not flashy, just there, available, willing to play hurt if asked.

Preseason is supposed to be about proving you belong. Love got his chance and got it early. The injury didn't end it; he did. What happens next—how his ankle feels, whether that workload holds, whether a young running back's willingness to stay in the fight turns into something the Cardinals can actually use—that's the story still unfolding.

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