Commanders insider gets blunt on Jeremiyah Love speculation

The Washington Commanders are looking for a bounce-back season in 2026. After a deep playoff run in the 2024 campaign, Washington would miss the postseason last season. As a result, the Commanders are looking to avoid back-to-back seasons of no playoffs. A healthy Jayden Daniels will help Washington's aspirations of a playoff berth in 2026, but it can't all be on him. What would help Daniels is a strong, reliable running game. Moreover, there could be an impactful back in the Top 10 if Jeremiyah Love can fall to Washington at No. 7 in the 2026 NFL Draft. With Love potentially being a draft target for Washington, Commanders insider Ben Standig, who covers the team for the Last Man Standig Substack, shared his thoughts on Love and whether he's worth selecting with the seventh overall pick. "[The Commanders] landed on an option that I'm holding my nose to a degree, and yet simultaneously I'm pretty excited, and that's Jeremiyah Love, the running back from Notre Dame," Standig said during a March 20 appearance on The Team 980. "I just do not like taking running backs this high. I don't think a lot of teams do, but this is a weird year where, you know, the top of the draft is a little softer than usual. You've got other players who play a position that are not typically going to get picked this high." Although it's not wise to take a running back so high, Standig believes that it's a year in which the good players are at positions that don't tend to go very high in drafts, the Commanders taking a gamble on Love wouldn't be the worst decision. Read more: Cowboys’ CeeDee Lamb Tells Steelers Fans What to Expect from Mike McCarthy Still, the question is whether the former Notre Dame Fighting Irish star will make it to the seventh pick, as the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants could use a dynamic playmaker at running back. "In a year again, there are good players, but people clearly are not in love, it's my read on all this that taking the slightly more unconventional player, if that's the better talent, is not a bad way to go," Standig added. "So is he going to make it to seven is obviously the big question."