ELITE FIT: Commanders and Jeremiyah Love—How a Dual-Threat Can TRANSFORM Washington in 2026

Every year, the UNFELs Count on Combine has storylines, but this year is one of the most

historic workout weeks I can remember, and the running backs only added to that fact

on Saturday.

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at the UNFELs Count on Combine by running backs.

And just how deep is this receiver group?

It's pretty deep, pretty deep along with some quarterbacks, a quarterback, rather, that

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The running back group added to what has been a historic weekend for the UNFELs Count

on Combine, continuing a streak of record breaking speeds with an average 40 yard dash time

of 4.42 seconds, became the fifth consecutive position group as we get into sets in all

time record for speed.

The best fit coming out of the group.

I know some of you are just going to love hearing me say this, Jeremiah love running

back out of Notre Dame, a true home run, hitter 436 speed, a lead ability, gives the Commanders

a dual threat back who can split out wide and do just about everything.

If you need them to no doubt in my mind or I think anybody's mind that he is the best

fit and no surprise, he's also the best running back in this year's class.

The best Commanders comp.

I'm going to go with another Notre Dame, Golden Domer, Jadarian Price, reminds me a little

of the JD McKissick not so much dimension wise, but he got, he got quoted as being best

in show during the running back group, which I think is a very high praise indeed during

his own field drills for that and for his vision, his ability to catch smoothly, navigate

through the trash in the interior, has lead footwork.

I think really kind of reminds you of an up high upside JD McKissick, if you remember

him, just stylistically how they play.

On top prospects that stood out, obviously Jeremiah Love, the elite, elite player that

was a quote, I heard it down from Daniel Jeremiah's coverage, elite, elite player, number

two overall prospect in the NFL by a lot of measurements, bigboard rank for PFF has

him at number four.

Again, that might be changing after this weekend easily, a top five projected player, which

I know some commanders fans want him at number seven, but he might not be there at number

seven.

Again, ran official four, three, six, just really an amazing ability to make defenders

miss, but also not break his stride on tape showed a lot of that fluidity, a lot of that

agility and ability on the field there in the workouts at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Daniel Jeremiah also said, quote, it is so fun because it is home run after home run after

home run.

It's like watching judge just park it up in the seats and quote, fun story went to our

first Yankees game in Yankees stadium as a family last season, last off season, I

care, remember it was in the last 365 and it's first time my wife ever got to see her in

judge and he had a very bad game like struck out like twice, grounded at once and really

do much of anything and so according to my wife's recollection, he's not a good, he's

not a very good player, I explained to her that it's not all that he does, but according

to her one exposure, not a good performance from Mr Aaron judge, anyway, back to the prospects

Mike Washington, junior running back out of Arizona, out of Arizona, out of Arkansas, got

very emotional after his workout, your after night, his full workout after his part of his

work, I ran a 4 3 3 40, the fastest running back in the group broke down in tears was on

the phone doing so just really kind of shows you the emotions of the moment on the work

that goes into it, also at a 10 foot 8 inch broad jump 39 inch vertical, which kind of

correlates that lower body ability, a really great workout for him, jadarian price as we

talked about, he ran a 4 5 40, thought he was there was reports out there that people thought

he was kind of cruising, could have gone a little bit faster, but he was also cited as

like we said, best in show during the drills, saw the smoothness out of them, saw the change

of direction out of them, currently the 59th ranked player on PFF's big board, a second

round projection, Mike Washington is the 160th ranked player on PFF's big board early

4th round projection, although that might be getting better after this weekend, as well

Demon Clayboard on a wake for a start of the day, with a 4 3 7 40 time very, very fast, he's

undersized 188 pounds, but he's at significant juice, and he displayed that juice in some of

the off field drills, consistently the fastest player through the bags, when the time came, he's

currently ranked as a 142th player by 42nd 42th, what the heck, he's the 142nd player, according

to PFF, a 5th round projection for him. The most important drill of the day for the running

bags, if you watch the on drill sessions, the off-packle recognition drill, a lot of off-tackle

in today's NFL, but it replicates a, as real world as you can get, of reading your blocks,

sifting through the trash, finding the hole, finding the lane, being able to do that. It kind

of reminded me, we watched those watchmakers offense, this last training camp do a lot of running

drills, more running drills than we expected to see during the early part of training camp with no

contact allowed, and that's kind of what they're doing, is engaging how well these running

bags see the hole, see the blocks, set them up, be patient, things like that, and then hit them,

a jittery price, again, a piece of me best to show, no surprise that he was also the best

in this drill, and one of the quotes from the, from the broadcast quote, price was the best one

through the drill, so far with that first rep, that was smooth, and quote, jam Miller, an honorable

mention from this running back group, 443 speed, showed really good burst and recovery during a

wheel route slip, but either way, jam Miller or someone who stands out just as a kind of a,

a guy that everybody should know, whether or not he ends up with the wash commands or not,

certainly has what looks like the ability to do some good things in the national football league

here, moving forward, the wider seer group is deep, and what it was called stacked, it's been called

fat in the middle during the week of combine drills, we'll talk about some of the best including

the best fit and the most Washington commanders like comp from that group coming up next on today's

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today wide receiver group is stacked in the 2026 NFL draft it was even called fat in the middle

during the NFL scouting combined coverage by NFL network we're talking about

wide receiver groups as we continue our look at the drills over the weekend in Indianapolis the

best commanders fit from the wide receiver group working out in Indianapolis has to be cardinal

tates out of Ohio State arguably the best receiver the NFL draft although some people have

Jordan Tyson some people you know the wide receiver group obviously can be flipped in in no

numerous different ways Washington needs a Z receiver they need someone who can go deep get high

things like that and I think a vertical stretch weapon is exactly how you describe carnell tates

would give Jane Daniels a massive catch radius and really complimentarium corns route running

and then develop to the point where wintery is ready or when it's time for Terry to take a step back

carnell tate probably would be ready to take that step up I think the most interesting commander's

comp that I saw on field macaque lemon kind of a James and Crowder type and obviously James and

Crowder was five eight I think macaque lemon came in like five eleven so not a size for size comparison

but sturdy slot specialists who wins with leverage strong hands and traffic very much reflective of

what we saw from James and Crowder as early as 20 or as recently as 2024 in fact making some

game winning catches and converting a lot of third downs things like that let's get to the top

prospects standouts from the receiver room Brennan Thompson Mississippi State fastest guy of the day

426 40 back 20 speed was noted as elites he's a fourth round macaque right now ranked 126 on the

pff big board coming into the event deon berks at Oklahoma also ran a sub 444 40 right of 434 flat

third round projection 94th overall player had a flawless catching session during the drills on

the field carnal tate we talked about him Virgil stretch guy did run a 453 though it doesn't

seem people are really all that worried about I guess some hand time tata more like in a 444 range

anyway but he's always been more of a long strider than a sprinter so nobody's really upset about

that overall pff ranking number nine certainly a first round projection macaque lemon not only

to see a slot specialist but he himself compared his own game to almond Ross Saint Brown who of course

we've been talking about a lot this offseason because what we project the david blau often

to look like so those who are on the macaque lemon train or tree may be lemon tree you know what I

mean uh might be there strong and sturdy and tough is the way that he was described uh 10th

player on the pff big board certainly a round one projection there Zachariah branch out of Georgia

showed some explosivability caught everything and then did multiple cartwheel flips those things

if you're interested in that kind of thing as well currently a third round projection 79th overall

big board rank 435 speed ball skills human highlight real quote unquote is what we heard during the

broadcast about Zachariah branch the most important drill for the wider seaver you probably already

know this the gauntlet drill one is one of the most fun uh drills to watch anyway it's one that I

always imagine would be blast try to run uh but I would probably get blasted speaking of in the face

multiple times by footballs um like we've unfortunately seen in some combines past uh but look it

tests receivers ability to maintain that top speed flat line and then catch them balls naturally

tuck them away drop them get ready for the next one back and forth all that kind of stuff Zachariah

branch absolutely balled out in this show exceptional ball or body control ball control as well um

broadcast quotes quote I was really impressed with branch the way he caught the football that was

all hands very strong and quote uh Denzel Boston a honorable mention here out of Washington six foot

four and a half uh giant vacuum is how he was described catch radius kind of reminds me like a

Mike Evans type and just what happens Mike Evans is getting close to retirement Skylar Bell

wire to your out of Yukon 4 4 speed ultra productive uh positional uh player as well quarterbacks you

know obviously the Washington mayors don't really need a quarterback but uh we do have uh some

interesting quarterbacks out there in the field I'm going to go through this anyway best

commanders fit would be Fernando Mendoza the number number one uh player on the big board and soon

to be number one overall pick so if the watch mayors needed a quarterback Fernando Mendoza would

probably be the one best commanders comp is Ty Simpson Alabama quarterback arguably the best workout

of the day uh looks a lot like Kirk cousins uh son of a coach excellent feet good release mechanics

are consistent considered by some being a lead thrower very Kirk cousins ask uh type of guy some

other uh prospects that performed here tail and green out of Arkansas uh does delivered a great

performance six foot six set the all-time quarterback regular for vert uh 43 and a half vertical jump

and broad jump 11 feet two inches before running a four three six so super athletic seventh round draft

pick uh prospect uh projection I should say 228th player on the pff bigboard ties Simpson we just

talked about him he's a second round projection 36 on the pff bigboard certainly or some people

are going to think that he works his way back into the back end of the first round potentially trade

happening there at the back end of the first round for someone to come up and get him with that

fifth year option Carson Beck also uh looked pro ready i was commented that he's have a PhD in

past pro six foot four two hundred thirty three pounds uh and his intelligence have always been a

thing round four ninety seven overall player on the pff bigboard truthly i've never been a big Carson

Beck guy so fourth round kind of seen the fit uh Drew Aller uh powerful arm looks all of it uh

look good pretty much uh pretty good for what you expect coming off the injury these coming off

a fifth round projection ranked 140th uh of course the washman is again not looking for a quarterback

here most important drill the deep ball go route you want to see that touch you want to see that

accuracy uh you want to see them do you have the ability to drop the ball in the bucket the guy

that i would not mind the washman's potentially taking a run on in april as a undrafted free agent

would be heinous king quarterback out of george attack top five all time speed ran a four four six

and was noted as the quote unquote toughest dude in the drafts uh wouldn't mind having that guy

on the roster if the washman's find themselves in need of a camp in bite quarterback

and uh you know working with david blow jane daniel's who knows what he good new develop into

potentially back end uh backup type quarterback in the national football it's going to do it for

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