Jeremiyah Love broke Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis’ records at Notre Dame, and now the NFL Draft has tied the running backs together again
Love was the first running back off the board when the Arizona Cardinals selected him with the third overall pick. It’s the first time a Notre Dame running back was selected in the first round since the Los Angeles Rams drafted Bettis with the 10th overall pick at the 1993 NFL Draft.
Love, who finished third in Heisman Trophy voting, played three seasons with Notre Dame, rushing 2882 yards for 36 touchdowns. He also had 63 receptions for 594 yards and six touchdowns.
Back in September, Love scored his 21st touchdown of the season — surpassing Bettis’ 20 touchdown season set in 1991.
The Golden State Warriors have put together their teams through a variety of ways over the years, yet few approaches have proven as successful as the NBA draft. More than anything else, the most talented players to represent the Warriors have arrived in Golden State either by being selected directly in the annual draft or through trades executed on that same night.
The Golden State Warriors have taken many of their top stars through the draft, but have also landed a number of notable players over the years as well. From tiny colleges to blue blood programs, these alumni have contributed significantly to the team’s roster over the years. So, we chose to take a closer look at which Dubs came from which schools over the years.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Warriors out of Cal State Northridge.
Cliff Higgins – forward
Draft year and position: seventh round (eighth pick, 147th overall), 1984 NBA Draft
Seasons at Cal State Northridge: unknown
Seasons played with Warriors: did not make the team
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
The Florida Gators football program will contribute a smaller number of prospects to NFL rosters in 2026. However, almost all of them will be concentrated in the first two days with one player sliding into day 3.
The first four names are all trench players. Offensive line and defensive line. Later in the process, they will also see a CB and a WR come off the board.
Florida in 2025 felt like a team in transition and that will bear itself out during the draft. Most players come off between rounds 2 and 3. However, DT Caleb Banks has been a mover, with some analysts believing he could go as early as the first round.
Florida Gators 2026 NFL Draft prospects (7)
Name
Pos
HT
WT
40
Range
Pick
Team
Caleb Banks
DT
6’6
327
5.04
Rd 1-2
Tyreak Sapp
DE
6’2
273
4.76
Rd 2-3
Austin Barber
OT
6’7
318
5.12
Rd 2-4
George Grumbs Jr
DE
6’4
245
4.66
Rd 2-4
Devin Moore
CB
6’3
303
4.50
Rd 2-4
Jake Slaughter
C
6’5
303
5.10
Rd 3-5
J. Michael Sturdivant
WR
6’3
207
4.40
Rd 4-6
2026 NFL Draft: Florida Gators news
In the final mock draft from Field Yates and Mel Kiper, Caleb Banks is not selected in the first round.
Florida Gators defensive tackle Caleb Banks has a possibility of hearing his name called tonight, according to one Gators beat writer. Some mock drafts have him landing anywhere between the middle of the first round and late in the second.
Former Alabama coach and College Gameday analyst, Nick Saban, lists Gators center, Jake Slaughter, in his All-Star offensive lineup along with LT Spencer Fano, LG Kadyn Proctor, RG Olaivavega Ioane, and RT Francis Mauigoa to round out the offensive line.
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The 2026 NFL draft kicks off at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday in Pittsburgh (ESPN, ABC and NFL Network– available on Fubo), The Las Vegas Raiders will likely select Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick.
Jordyn Tyson of the Arizona State Sun Devils was the second receiver taken in the NFL Draft. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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The New Orleans Saints seemingly hit a home run last year at quarterback, taking Tyler Shough in the second round. This year, it was time to get Shough some help.
The Saints took Arizona State receiver Jordyn Tyson with the eighth overall pick. The knock on Tyson has been that he dealt with numerous injuries through his college career. His talent was hard to deny, however. Without injury issues, he could have easily been the first receiver selected on Thursday night. Tyson had 711 yards and eight touchdowns last season but played in only nine games. There’s some risk involved for the Saints but they swung for the upside.
It should immediately benefit Shough. Shough didn’t begin last season as the Saints’ starting quarterback, but once he was inserted in the lineup he played well. Shough’s strong second half of the season allowed the Saints to not worry about quarterback in a draft class that didn’t have many options at that position. Instead, they could take a shot on a player like Tyson.
The Saints can pair Tyson with Chris Olave, another former first-round pick who has dealt with injuries through his pro career. If both stay healthy, they can form a strong duo at receiver for a Saints team that is still building under coach Kellen Moore.
There will be some concerns about Tyson’s durability. But the Saints are gambling he’ll stay healthy, because the potential payoff could be huge.
The New Orleans Saints came into the 2026 NFL Draft with needs at edge rusher, wide receiver, and cornerback. Other than Mansoor Delane to the Kansas City Chiefs and Carnell Tate to the Tennessee Titans, the board went as expected.
One of the top wide receivers in this year’s draft is now coming to New Orleans. But why did the Saints make this pick when they already have Chris Olave?
The Saints taking Tyson is not a massive surprise, given how the team has been linked to wide receivers leading up to the NFL Draft.
Tyson caught 61 passes for 711 yards and eight touchdowns last season, and was one of the best receivers in this year’s class.
With Tate off the board thanks to the Titans, the Saints got the other top WR option, taking Tyson at No. 8 overall right before the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants, both teams with WR needs, made their picks at No. 9 and No. 10 overall, respectively.
Olave is a great number one wide receiver, but the Saints could use more help in the WR room, with their next best receiver being Devaughn Vele, a solid WR, but better as depth than as a team’s number two option.
Tyson is a great receiver and has extremely high upside. Alongside Vele and Olave, Tyson will help the Saints offense make another leap by giving Tyler Shough as much help as possible to turn him into the franchise QB the Saints are hoping they get.
There are some injury concerns, but if he can be healthy and play alongside Olave in the Saints offense, this pick could be a fantastic one.
Jaylon Tyson and the Cleveland Cavaliers were in the middle of the second quarter of their NBA playoff matchup with the Toronto Raptors when it happened.
The New Orleans Saints drafted wide receiver Jordyn Tyson — yes, Jaylon’s brother.
Jordyn is a talented WR from Arizona State, the second off the board Thursday night after Ohio State’s Carnell Tate.
The Saints stayed at their No. 8 overall pick, and Tyson fell to them.
Jordyn has spoken about the positive influence Jaylon has had on him. There are a lot of lessons you learn as a pro athlete that Jordyn will have passed down to him by his brother.
“Just being a pro, being an everyday guy, making good decisions and stuff like that,” Jordyn told reporters during the pre-draft process. “And just knowing it’s a business at the end of the day. You’ve got to earn your keep and prove yourself every day.”
The Giants selected Ohio State EDGE Arvell Reese with the No. 5 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Let’s break down how Big Blue did on Day 1…
The criticism around this pick will center on development. Reese isn’t a fine-tuned prospect. He did a little bit of everything at Ohio State … because he can do just about everything.
You’re hoping, in time, Reese turns into a player as dominant around the edge and inside as Micah Parsons. That’s his ceiling. He just won’t be that in 2026. Again: He needs time.
But that doesn’t mean he won’t have a major role this season – that’s what was lost in the pre-draft process. He’ll be on the field just about every play for John Harbaugh as the most versatile chess piece at his disposal. He’ll put his hand in the dirt and rush. He’ll play off-ball linebacker. He’ll drop into coverage. He’ll line up over the A gap and torpedo the middle.
The fascinating thing here is how the Giants will use all their rushers. They have Brian Burns, Abdul Carter and Kayvon Thibodeaux. The odd man out might be Thibodeaux, whom the team could look to move for a Day 2 or 3 pick.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – FEBRUARY 27: Fernando Mendoza of the Indiana Hoosiers speaks to the media during the 2026 NFL Draft Combine at the Indiana Convention Center on February 27, 2026 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) | Getty Images
In a move that has been expected for months, the Raiders believe they got their new franchise quarterback by taking the Heisman Trophy winner from Indiana.
Mendoza is completely on board with joining the Silver and Black.
“What a great organizatiob and legacy … looking forward to talking to my teammates, coaches and owners. I’m ecstatic for this opportunity,” Mendoza told NFL Network moments after he was drafted.
In a call with Las Vegas media members, Mendoza said he is excited to play for Klint Kubiak and he thinks the quarterback can be a point guard in the offense. He is also excited to have p[art owner Tom Brady as a mentor, calling it an edge for the team.
Raiders’ general manager John Spytek to the team’s website that Mendoza checked boxes during the entire draft processs and that he beleives the quarterback “is the right guy for the Raiders.”
Brady tweeted out a welcome to Mendoza.
Congratulations to all the rookies who are joining the NFL this weekend. I hope you can appreciate this special moment… you’ve earned it through hard work, discipline, and determination. You’ve made your family proud, along with everyone else on your journey that has supported…
The Raiders selecting Fernando Mendoza at No. 1 puts him alongside Joe Burrow, Jameis Winston and Cam Newton as the only QBs since 1967 to win the Heisman Trophy, a national title and go No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft.
Fernando Mendoza will join these Heisman Trophy winners to play for #Raiders: Charles Woodson Jim Plunkett Marcus Allen Bo Jackson Tim Brown Carson Palmer Matt Leinart Marcus Mariota Desmond Howard Billy Cannon
Apr 23, 2026; San Francisco, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing (68) slides into San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames (2) trying to make the double play with second baseman Luis Arraez (1) during the sixth inning at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images | Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
The series was already in hand. LA had just scored one run over the past 18 innings. Shohei Ohtani’s on-base streak snapped. Aftershocks from Patrick Bailey’s game-winning, three-run shot on Wednesday night were still reverberating around Oracle. San Francisco’s previous wins gave them a commanding two game advantage over LA over 2,597 head-to-head match-ups. So yeah…there was a certain level of sympathy being felt amongst the orange-and-black community in Thursday’s finale. Pity is a good word too. It’d be impolite to not give your guests something for their troubles. LA fans had journeyed so far, trekking up the cement cow-chute of I-5 (savvier Californians prefer the free-flowing, lettuce chute of Highway 101) — and for what? Dalton Rushing content? For Shohei Ohtani to go hitless and not win as a pitcher in the same game? And isn’t it weird that he’s a two-way player once every six days and he gets all the attention, yet Luis Arraez scoops short hops at second and hits singles every damn day?
So a parting gift for our forlorn brothers and their clown prince, Tyler Glasnow. Ultimate goof, certified knucklehead — the Giants bats graciously blessed him. A 3-0 shutout for a 3-0 shutout. The cup of compassion overfloweth.
I jest, of course. Not about Glasnow being a knucklehead, he will always and forever be one thanks to this clip.
I jest about the Giants having any semblance of control over the outcome of Thursday’s game because hot dang Glasnow was dominant today. No generosity needed — he took everything that he wanted over 8 scoreless innings, while allowing just one single, striking out 9 and facing the minimum of 24 hitters. He racked up chase and whiffs and legless contact, stealing strikes with his fastball and spinning hitters with his curveball, working them north, south, and right down the equator. He gave hitters a ladder for them to climb, and they asked “How high?” He threw shovels at them and told them to dig.
Believe it or not, this was Glasnow toning down his breaking ball usage. The “off-script” approach might help explain some of his effectiveness. His sinker usage over his previous starts sat at 18%, he bumped it up to 45% Thursday afternoon. He dropped his four-seam reliance from 37% to 12%, and his curveball (including knuckle curve) from 30% to 22%. Fastballs accounted for 15 of his 23 called strikes (especially at the top of the zone). While hitters inched up to the plate, anxious about the big hook or slider, Glasnow’s fastballs caught them off guard. In a friendly 3-1 hitter’s count, he served up a 96 MPH sinker right down the middle and Willy Adames threw his bat at the ball, popping it up in foul ground, as if it snuck up and bit him.
Perhaps a visual would be the most effective. This pool noodle wave at a curveball to end the 6th pretty much sums up the experience.
Is it best to have no idea, close your eyes, and swing? Or have no idea, close your eyes, and take because you have no idea what is about to be thrown at you?
It wasn’t that Webb pitched poorly — he logged his second consecutive quality start and third of the year, allowing 3 earned over 7 IP — he just got left in the dust by Glasnow. That’s how life works sometimes. Webb knows that, and he knows he pitched well and kept the offense in the game, but there will always be something grating about being hung with the loss, with having to wear, as the inimitable Smash Mouth would say, “the shape of an ‘L’ on your forehead.”
I get the sense too that Webb still isn’t completely stoked about how 2026 is going. Maybe that’s why he’s a professional athlete. He’ll never be fully satisfied, even after a solid outing with a lot of good in it. The obvious one: he kept the Dodgers in the park and held them to just three runs. He helped extend Ohtani’s not-on-base streak to two games with a pair of strikeouts and a pair of ground outs (including a DP). He slayed that beast, much like he did with Aaron Judge in the season opener, but lacked a needed edge against others.
In the 2nd, Webb had Dalton Rushing — the rivalry’s newest troll — in a 1-2 hole with two outs and a runner on second. The pitch he threw wasn’t by no means a mistake in terms of location, it was just a mistake in the sense Rushing saw it coming. He was looking down, got something waaayyy down, and scraped a change-up off the plate and deposited it into center field for LA’s first run, and lead, of the series. Webb could tip his cap, or he could think about predictability, about pitching backwards, or like Glasnow did, “off-script.” Would it have been better to go to another elevated cutter, perhaps a four-seamer (a pitch he fanned Ohtani on in the 3rd)?
Then in the 4th, Webb got a little lazy with location. Both Kyle Tucker and Max Muncy punched back-to-back doubles on first-pitch offerings left right out over the plate. And with two outs and a runner on second, Hyseong Kim ambushed another first pitch for another RBI.
Webb played into the Dodger’s attack a little bit there, and some less than ideal defensive work behind him didn’t help either. On Max Muncy’s double, Kyle Tucker after a terrible read on the ball ended up stopping at third base. A lucky break, except for the fact that the relay throw from Drew Gilbert in center to Adames at short was bobbled, allowing Tucker to break for the plate and score anyway. Not the worst infield infraction that Webb has had to pitch through, but this one sure doesn’t help in restoring the trust between pitcher and his defense.
A bad break, or bad bounce, came on Kim’s single to Heliot Ramos in right. Even with Muncy’s two out jump from second, Ramos’s relay was on target and looked like it’d arrive on time — until it lost all its energy on its first hop. Instead of the ball skipping off the infield grass, it kicked up, slowing it down enough for Muncy to score LA’s third run.
Not that it really mattered in the end. Winning was never the intention anyway. The Giants are just too gentlemanly to sweep a visiting team, even if it is the Dooogers.
The choice of Mendoza marks an attempt by Raiders minority owner Tom Brady — the legendary QB who won a staggering seven Super Bowl rings — to mentor an heir apparent of sorts, giving Las Vegas a clean slate as it enters a major rebuild following the disappointing one-and-done tenures of head coach Pete Carrol and QB Geno Smith.
Mendoza could be the only QB selected in Round 1. Teams were expected to focus their attention to the trenches in a draft experts concur is lacking in blue chippers.
The biggest unknown heading into Thursday was the fate of powerful Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, arguably the draft’s best athlete. That question was quickly answered when he heard his name called by the Arizona Cardinals at No. 3 overall.
With the position is no longer considered premium, it is often overlooked at the top of the first round. Love was the first running back taken in the top 3 since the Cleveland Browns selected Trent Richardson at No. 3 in 2012. He is just the fourth running back since 2018 to be selected in the top 10.
The New York Giants, who finished with just four wins last year and are hoping for a reset under new head coach John Harbaugh, have two top 10 selections thanks to a blockbuster trade last week in which they acquired the No. 10 pick from the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for disgruntled star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence. They also had the No. 5 pick, which they used on Ohio State edge Arvell Reese.
The Kansas City Chiefs were responsible for the first big draft day trade: moving up from No. 9 to No. 6 to take LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane in a swap with the Cleveland Browns.
Speaking of the football powerhouse Ohio State, it could be responsible for as many as four top 10 selections. Along with Reese, wide receiver Carnell Tate was selected No. 4 by the Tennessee Titans, and linebacker Sonny Styles and safety Caleb Downs were all expected to be taken early.
Miami edge Rueben Bain Jr., Miami offensive tackle Francis Mauigoa and Utah offensive tackle Spencer Fano are also expected to be snatched up quickly.
2026 NFL Draft order for Round 1No. 1: Las Vegas Raiders — QB Fernando Mendoza, IndianaNo. 2: New York Jets — Edge David Bailey, Texas TechNo. 3: Arizona Cardinals — RB Jeremiyah Love, Notre DameNo. 4: Tennessee Titans — WR Carnell Tate, Ohio StateNo. 5: New York Giants — edge Arvell Reese, Ohio StateNo. 6: Kansas City Chiefs (trade up with Cleveland Browns) — CB Mansoor Delane, LSUNo. 7: Washington CommandersNo. 8: New Orleans SaintsNo. 9: Cleveland Browns (trade down with Chiefs)No. 10: New York GiantsNo. 11: Miami DolphisNo. 12: Dallas CowboysNo. 13: Los Angeles RamsNo. 14: Baltimore RavensNo. 15: Tampa Bay BuccaneersNo. 16: New York JetsNo. 17: Detroit LionsNo. 18: Minnesota VikingsNo. 19: Carolina PanthersNo. 20: Dallas CowboysNo. 21: Pittsburgh SteelersNo. 22: Los Angeles ChargersNo. 23: Philadelphia EaglesNo. 24: Cleveland BrownsNo. 25: Chicago BearsNo. 26: Buffalo BillsNo. 27: San Francisco 49ersNo. 28: Houston TexansNo. 29: Kansas City ChiefsNo. 30: Miami DolphinsNo. 31: New England PatriotsNo. 32: Seattle SeahawksWhere to find expert picks for a 2026 mock NFL Draft
