Cardinals' Jeremiyah Love has a real plan for a historic payday

Cardinals' Jeremiyah Love has a real plan for a historic payday originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

The Arizona Cardinals selected Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love with the third overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, and the contract that followed made history at the position before he has ever taken an NFL carry.

He is set to sign a four-year, fully guaranteed rookie deal worth $50.5 million, the most guaranteed money ever given to a running back in the history of the NFL.

The previous record belonged to Saquon Barkley, whose 2018 rookie deal with the New York Giants included $31.2 million guaranteed.

What Love said about the money is drawing just as much attention as the number itself.

Love plans to invest his contract, use his marketing money on his family first

"I'm not spending any of my NFL checks," Love told BRGridiron. "All that money, my financial advisor's going to take care of all of that. It's going to be there making more and more money."

Love, who is 20 years old, already has a financial advisor in place and a specific plan for where his supplemental income goes first.

"First thing I might buy with my marketing money is a house for my parents, car for my dad," . "Shoot, I'mma put myself last. I'm going to take care of my family first."