Fantasy Football Video: Will we see an Ashton Jeanty situation for Jeremiyah Love in 2026?
There's some fear of Love having a rookie season similar to Ashton Jeanty, depending on landing spot.
Heading into 2025 fantasy football dynasty drafts, you couldn’t find a manager with the No. 1 overall pick who wasn’t excited about RB Ashton Jeanty. Subsequently, once redraft season arrived in August, Jeanty was viewed as a first-round asset and was drafted as such in a highly anticipated rookie season in Las Vegas.
But things didn’t exactly go as planned. Jeanty didn’t have an awful season by rookie RB standards but he fell way short of expectations in 2025. The Boise State product took 266 attempts for just under 1,000 rushing yards and just five touchdowns, averaging 3.
7 yards per carry. That YPC figure ranked just inside the top 50 among qualified rushers and Jeanty finished as the RB17 in fantasy points per game. He was saved by 55 catches for 346 yards and five scores through the air.
Those numbers weren’t dreadful but if you take away two spike weeks of 30+ fantasy points in which Jeanty finished as the RB1, he would have fallen even shorter of the hype. The Jeanty of 2026 is Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love, who is expected to go in the first round in the upcoming NFL Draft. But after Jeanty’s performance in 2025, do we need to take a step back and temper expectations for Love?