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| Position | Running back |
| Personal information | |
| Born | July 8, 1997[1] Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Listed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Wake Forest (Wake Forest, North Carolina) |
| College | Stanford (2015–2018) |
| NFL draft | 2019: 4th round, 112th overall pick |
| Career history | |
| Awards and highlights | |
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| Stats at Pro Football Reference | |
Jonathan Bryce Love (born July 8, 1997) is an American former football running back. He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2019 NFL draft, although he never played in a game with them due to a lingering issue from a knee injury he suffered at Stanford. In his youth, he was also a sprinter specializing in the 200 meters and 400 meters, earning USA Track & Field Youth Athlete of the Year honors in 2009.[2][3]
A native of Wake Forest, North Carolina, Love attended Wake Forest High School. In addition to track, he competed in football and drew comparisons to Keith Marshall.[4] At the combine of the 2013 U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, Love ran an electronically timed 4.4 seconds in the 40-yard dash.[5]
A track athlete from an early age, Love attended the 2009 USA Track & Field (USATF) National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships, setting national record times of 11.64 in the 100m, 23.37 in the 200m and 50.75 in the 400m dash. It was the first time a boy from the midget age group (11–12 years old) has set three national records in one year. Love was named USATF Youth Athlete of the Year 2009.[2] Soon after, Love set new records in the 13–14 yrs group at a meet in Hoschton, Georgia. He ran 10.73 in the 100 and 21.83 in the 200 on consecutive days.[citation needed]
As a football player, he was rated as a 4-star recruit by ESPN and the No. 18 running back prospect of the class of 2015.[6] He committed to Stanford over offers from Clemson, East Carolina, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, and Wisconsin, among others.[7]
In the 2015 and 2016 seasons, Love backed up Christian McCaffrey, a first-round selection in the 2017 NFL draft. Love accumulated 1,009 rushing yards in these two seasons.[8][9]
Love had a break-out season in 2017 with 2,118 rushing yards. Love was second in the nation in rushing yards and in rushing yards per game. Love reached the 1,000-yard rushing mark in just the fifth game of the season. He had back-to-back games with over 250 rushing yards, making him only the second Pac-12 Conference player to accomplish this (along with Reggie Bush). He ran for a school-record 301 yards in a game. Love ran for at least 100 yards in twelve of his thirteen games, leading all running backs in the nation.
Love won the Doak Walker Award as the nation's best running back.[10] He won the Lombardi Award for 2017.[11] He was a unanimous first-team All-American. The Pac-12 named Love its Offensive Player of the Year. Love also was named to the All-Pac-12 First-team. Like McCaffrey in 2015, Love was the runner-up for the 2017 Heisman Trophy.[12]
In his senior season, Love was one of the team captains. He was put on several preseason All-American lists as well as preseason award watch lists. He missed some time due to an ACL injury, but managed to finish the year with 739 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns.[13] At the end of the season, he earned Pac-12 honorable mention. Love graduated from Stanford with a degree in human biology in 2019.[14]
| Season | GP | Rushing | Receiving | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
| 2015 | 14 | 29 | 225 | 7.8 | 2 | 15 | 250 | 16.7 | 1 |
| 2016 | 12 | 111 | 783 | 7.1 | 3 | 8 | 83 | 10.4 | 1 |
| 2017 | 13 | 263 | 2,118 | 8.1 | 19 | 6 | 33 | 5.5 | 0 |
| 2018 | 10 | 166 | 739 | 4.5 | 6 | 20 | 99 | 5.0 | 0 |
| Career | 49 | 569 | 3,865 | 6.8 | 30 | 49 | 465 | 9.5 | 2 |
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | Bench press | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 ft 8+7⁄8 in (1.75 m) |
200 lb (91 kg) |
29+3⁄8 in (0.75 m) |
9+1⁄8 in (0.23 m) |
18 reps | ||||||||
| All values from NFL Combine[15][16] | ||||||||||||
Prior to the draft, Love suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his final college game which led to a concern among teams.[17] He ultimately was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round, 112th overall, of the 2019 NFL draft.[18] He signed his rookie contract with the team on May 9, 2019.[19] He was placed on the non-football injury list before the start of the season on August 31, 2019. He was active for a few games in 2020 before being placed on injured reserve (IR) on October 2.[20] He was designated to return from IR in November and practiced with the team,[21] but was not elevated to the active roster in time and remained on IR.[22] Love was eventually waived by the team on April 19, 2021, having never played in a game with them.[23]
Love remained in the Washington area and is an angel investor in technology. He has also expressed interest in going to medical school to be a pediatrician.[24] In 2025, Love joined the ACC Network as an on-air analyst for their college football coverage.[25]
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Jonathan Bryce Love (born July 8, 1997) is an American former football running back. He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2019 NFL draft, although he never played in a game with them due to a lingering issue from a knee injury he suffered at Stanford. In his youth, he was also a sprinter specializing in the 200 meters and 400 meters, earning USA Track & Field Youth Athlete of the Year honors in 2009.
The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The program was previously in the Pac-12 Conference. The team is known as the Cardinal, adopted prior to the 1982 season. Stanford was known as the "Cardinal" for its first two decades of athletic competition, then more commonly as the "Cardinals" until 1930. The name was changed to the "Indians" from 1930 to January 1972, and back to the "Cardinals" from 1972 through 1981. A student vote in December 1975 to change the nickname to "Robber Barons" was not approved by administrators. Stanford has fielded football teams every year since 1892 with a few exceptions. Like a number of other teams from the era concerned with violence in the sport, the school dropped football in favor of rugby from 1906 to 1917. The school also did not field a team in 1918 (due to World War I) or in 1943, 1944, and 1945 (due to World War II). The school participated in the first-ever Rose Bowl against Michigan in 1902, in which they were routed 49–0. Its annual Big Game against California is the oldest and most storied rivalry in the western United States. The Cardinal also compete for the Legends Trophy against independent rival Notre Dame. The program has an all-time record of 664–478–49 for a winning percentage of .578 Stanford left the Pac-12 with winning series records against all of its Pac-12 North rivals, except for the Washington Huskies, against whom they are tied 43–43–4. Stanford claimed national championships in 1926 and 1940. In 1926, led by coach Pop Warner, the team was undefeated in the regular season and tied Alabama in the 1927 Rose Bowl. The 1940 team went unbeaten and untied after defeating Nebraska 21–13 in the 1941 Rose Bowl, but the team ranked No. 2 in the final AP poll released before the game was played. Pop Warner's era predated the AP poll, but Stanford has finished at least one season in the Top 10 in six different decades under seven different coaches: Tiny Thornhill in 1934, Clark Shaughnessy in 1940, Chuck Taylor in 1951, John Ralston in 1970 and 1971, Bill Walsh in 1992, Jim Harbaugh in 2010, and David Shaw in 2011, 2012, and 2015. Shaw, as of the 2025 season, has the most wins of any Stanford coach in history. Stanford's most recent season finish in the top 5 was in 2015 after the No. 5 Cardinal dismantled Big Ten West Division Champion No. 6 Iowa Hawkeyes 45–16 in the 2016 Rose Bowl to finish with a record of 12–2 (Stanford's third 12-win season ever, after 2010 and 2012) and a final ranking of No. 3 in the final AP Poll and the final Coaches Poll (Stanford's highest AP Poll ranking since 1940 and its highest Coaches Poll ranking ever). The Cardinal have played in 30 bowl games in their history, including 17 appearances in bowls now comprising the College Football Playoff, specifically 15 Rose Bowls (the third-most appearances of any team, behind only USC's 33 appearances and Michigan's 22), the 2011 Orange Bowl, and the 2012 Fiesta Bowl. Quarterback Jim Plunkett is the only Stanford player to win the Heisman Trophy, doing so in 1970. Stanford players have finished second in Heisman voting six times: quarterback John Elway was second to Herschel Walker in 1982; running back Toby Gerhart was second to Mark Ingram II in 2009; quarterback Andrew Luck finished second to Cam Newton in 2010 and to Robert Griffin III in 2011; running back Christian McCaffrey finished second to Derrick Henry in 2015; and running back Bryce Love finished second to Baker Mayfield in 2017. As of September 10, 2025, 271 former Cardinal have played in an NFL or AFL regular-season game.
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