'J Love' to a tackle-breaking horse lover: Five elite college RBs to watch in 2025

As the beginning of faculty soccer season approaches Aug. 23, the white-hot highlight sometimes shines on skill-position gamers reminiscent of QBs, vast receivers and working backs. 

Whether or not bulldozing by means of site visitors, exploding into the open area or catching passes out of the backfield, these 5 elite RBs are poised to ship highlight-reel moments in 2025.

Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame Preventing Irish

Love (6-foot, 206 kilos) could also be one of the best returning working again in school soccer. He rushed for 1,125 yards and 17 touchdowns final season and was an enormous purpose Notre Dame received to the nationwide championship sport in opposition to Ohio State. 

NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay believes Love stands above all elite school working backs. 

“[H]e’s a first-round working again based mostly on his working abilities,” McShay famous. “The agility, acceleration, imaginative and prescient … contact stability and the ability all make him a first-round working again.”

Professional: “J Love” has breakaway velocity, highlighted by his 98-yard landing run final season. 

Con: His ball safety and route working should enhance.

Nate Frazier | Georgia Bulldogs

In his freshman season in 2024, the 5-foot-10, 205-pounder rushed for 671 yards and eight touchdowns and added 85 yards on 12 receptions. Anticipate these numbers to extend in his sophomore season.

Frazier will not be NFL Draft eligible till 2027, however he understands that as an skilled participant, it is his job to be a pacesetter and to proceed to get higher.

“This man’s going to be particular,” George linebacker Justin Williams mentioned within the spring, per DawgNation.

Professional: Velocity. Velocity. Velocity. Per UGA.rivals.com, in highschool, “Frazier ran the 100-meter sprint in 10.58 seconds. His capability to hit the outlet and discover a crease is a ability you’ll be able to’t train, and is a menace for an enormous play each time he touches the ball.”

Con: Ball safety. He fumbled thrice within the last six video games of the 2024 season.