2023 ATH Jeremiyah Love ready to prove he’s among nation’s best
St. Louis (Mo.) Christian Brothers junior athlete Jeremiyah Love is already one of the most heavily recruited prospects in the Midlands. But the 6-foot-1, 195-pounder has bigger goals in mind.
“I plan on dominating track and football this next year with hopes of being in the top-10 recruits in the nation,” Love said.
Love is ranked as the No. 22 athlete in the country, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
He’s also ranked as the No. 14 player in the Show-Me State. But one Big 12 recruiter told On3 that “Jeremiyah Love is the most under-ranked recruit in the country. I hope it stays that way so we can stay in the race.”
When it comes to football, Jeremiyah Love already has a quality offer list that includes Oregon, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, West Virginia, Nebraska, Purdue, Boston College, Vanderbilt, Iowa State, Washington, Kansas, Princeton and Eastern Illinois. Other schools like Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern, Minnesota, Army and Navy are also showing major interest in the all-state football selection.
Plus, quite a few of those schools have talked to Love about running track in college.
Along with his 996 yards and 14 touchdowns on 95 carries as a junior, Jeremiyah Love is one of the top track stars in Missouri. He won the Class 5 100-meter championship with a 10.76-second time. He also has a 22-foot-long jump.
Jeremiyah Love will take visits in April, May
But Jeremiyah Love still feels he’s being under-valued some by recruiters.
“I think a lot of schools are sleeping me likely because I don’t play in the Under Armour or USA football circuits,” he said. “I train with the best available. But whenever I travel and compete in combines, no one has topped my scores yet out of hundreds of athletes.”
Love is also taking an academic-first approach to his recruitment. While others are taking unofficial visits all over the country, he’s been mainly focused on preparing for upcoming ACT testing. So it’s no surprise that Stanford, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and other high academic institutions are monitoring him closely.
“I’m enrolled in ACT prep courses on the weekends until I take the test in April,” Love said. “I don’t know when I will be able to visit schools. But most likely I will start back visiting in April or May.”
Jeremiyah Love currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $6,000. The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.