00:05If the Giants don't grab Jeremiah Love with the fifth overall pick, then it is a no-brainer
00:12that John Harbaugh should take the not-so-talked-about-enough running back out of Notre Dame
00:18in the second round, and that's Jadarion Price. His height, 5'11", he's around 209 pounds,
00:24ran a 4-4-9, 35-inch vertical with a 10-4 broad jump. He's explosive. Almost 1,700 career
00:32rushing yards
00:32with 21 touchdowns, and he averaged six yards a carry in 2025, and he even added six catches with
00:39two receiving touchdowns. The first thing that I feel like jumps out when you watch this kid's tape
00:46is he has the wheels to be a FPF, a field position flipper. He would be the perfect complement back
00:54to a Cam Scadaboo and Tyrone Tracy Jr. backfield in Matt Nagy's offensive system. So here's a couple
01:01plays that's going to show you guys how J.D. gives you that lightning to balance out the thunder in
01:08the Giants' running back room in this week's Blue Rush Drive Profile.
01:15Alright, this first play is to show you guys how his running style is. He is a one-cut,
01:24get north style, put that foot into the ground, and get explosive tight back. You're going to see it
01:31here versus Boise State. Let's watch the play, then we'll bring it back. Watch this. Step foot in the
01:37ground, get vertical, runs through hand tackles or arm tackles, shows balance, gets into the end zone
01:46right there. I mean, you could call it poor tackling. You could say Notre Dame is just that much better
01:51than Boise State. Whatever it is, I'm just showing this play because it shows a running style. Let's
01:58watch it. It looks better on the tights, so I'll break this down one time from this angle, and then
02:03I'll break it down a little bit more on the tights. So we watch the play. You see him following
02:07following color. Following color. It's muddied up here. The picture is kind of muddy, but I want you
02:13to see him put the left foot into the ground. Now you have minimum space right here. A running back
02:22that doesn't have confidence in his speed and his vision will just take it here to the outside.
02:29You got nothing but space and green grass here to the outside. But he knows that the quickest way
02:35to get from point A to point B, meaning point B, the end zone, is a straight line. And this
02:40is what he does right here. Puts that right foot into the ground and gets north-south. Runs
02:45through some arm tackles and gets into the end zone. This angle doesn't do his vision any
02:51justice. We'll watch the tight. All right. So from here, you see one, two, three, four, five, six in the
03:01box. One, two, three, four, five, six. You've got six on six. He knows. He's going to trust his hog
03:08mollies up front to get body on the body. You see the vision here. All right. Now you kind of
03:13get into
03:14this contained area. Again, a lot of inexperienced running backs that don't trust their vision would
03:20have just bounced it straight to the outside. Here he presses the hole, allows 54 to get to work
03:26up to the second level. And he allows his man, he gets, he allows body on the body. He allows
03:32green to get on white. So right here, you can see him with his vision, slowly allowing the blocks
03:43to form. Put that left foot into the ground. Now he sees and presses to the outside through the
03:53technique and the leverage that this, I believe, offensive guard has, this tackle has. He could
03:59easily press this to the outside because now they've got these guys walled off, sealed off. You can get to
04:05the outside here. But for some reason, and I mean, it's his confidence in your speed. He sees a hole
04:12right here. He sees a good enough block to where this guy won't be able to come off this block
04:17and tackle him. Puts this right foot into the ground. Now I want you to watch the one cut
04:23explosion. And this is what you're going to have to do in the NFL because there's no time for dancing.
04:29You got to put one foot into the ground, make one cut and it get explosive to the second and
04:34third
04:34levels. This is exactly what he does here. Runs through that arm tackle. Just like I said,
04:39runs through another arm tackle, gets north-south, runs through another arm tackle. He has that balance
04:45as a ball carrier to just bounce off of guys. He's got the strength to deliver the contact and bounce
04:51off of guys. And he's got the ability to finish runs. Second play. You're going to watch. This is
05:00terrible defense by Syracuse, but it doesn't matter. I want to. You ran 4-4-9 at his combine. That's
05:07at his
05:08pro days. But his game speed is a lot faster than 4-4-9. Let's watch the wheels. One cut.
05:18Look at that. Now you're pulling away from folks. And now you're just coasting right there. Yeah,
05:23you better catch up to me. Now I'm coasting again. The tight angle shows a lot more than what this
05:31wide angle does. But again, I just want to show the one cut explosiveness with speed. Here,
05:40one cut. And it's a cutback. Now he is right here. He is at the 40, let's say 41 yard
05:48line.
05:50Watch how fast he accelerates to get past the referee, to get past the 51 yard line. Look at
05:56his 10 yard. Forget the 10 yard split at the combine or his pro day. Here's his 10 yard split
06:01right here on the field. Look how fast he gets up and past this referee, gets past that 10 yards.
06:12He
06:12now has everybody in a chase position after he was in the backfield when he touched the rock.
06:19That explosion, that quickness, that elusiveness, right here is the, this gives the Giants an
06:25ability to flip field position in one run. Or, you know, just go and hit the home run and score.
06:32Let's watch it from the tight. Better angle here. So now you see a light box. Hey, it happens
06:38sometimes in the NFL. He is pressing. And this is what, again, this shows his vision
06:45as a NFL ready running back. He's ready to press this strong side, a gap here. This ball is meant
06:53to go through the a gap. Sees a little leakage here, puts his right foot into the ground. And now
07:00that one cut, again, that one cut ability, the ball is supposed to go right here. And he probably
07:06would have scored had he went this way as well. But not every, every run block is not going to
07:12be
07:12clean. Puts that right foot into the ground. You saw it there. And now look at the, not only the
07:18speed,
07:19but how the speed makes good athletes look amateur. Here's the one-on-one. You've got the triangle here.
07:28This guy doesn't know what to do. Now here's that Oklahoma drill. Here's that open space drill that
07:33you're doing spring ball. You're doing training camp where this defender has to now come down and
07:38make a tackle. He doesn't stand a chance because of the speed. Last but not least, I mentioned how
07:45dangerous he is or how, how much of the impact he can make in year one in the NFL. And
07:54if you draft
07:55him to a running back room that already has Cam Scadaboo, who's coming off of a bad ankle injury,
08:02and then you've got Tyrone Tracy Jr., who kind of started the season a little slow, but then came
08:06on towards the end of it. You don't necessarily have to get this guy 15 to 20 carries or touches
08:13per game. You can find ways to get him, to get him a volume of, of production and touches. And
08:21you can
08:21also add him in the kick return game as well. This is to show his speed and open space. I
08:27get it.
08:27The game's towards the end. Notre Dame has, I don't know. Notre Dame is putting this one to bed,
08:33but this a hundred yard kick return, and he has two of them on the year. This puts it to
08:38bed
08:40for good. Look at the wheels. Does this look like a 4-4-9 to you? I mean, that's a
08:47kicker,
08:47but still. Does that look like a 4-4-9 to you? No. This looks low 4-4, high 4
08:55-3. The kid has game
08:57speed and can make an impact on a football game anytime that he touches the football. We're
09:03talking about a first round run, early or a mid first round running back if he wasn't having to
09:13share carries with Jeremiah Love the last season. Again, one cut. Now I want you to see,
09:24now they're here at the 30. Watch him pull away from a DB. Watch him pull away with his speed.
09:32Look at that. Pulling away with his speed. That doesn't say 4-4-9.
09:39This kid is a threat every time he touches the football, so don't let the production fool you
09:44in terms of stats and numbers and, oh, he didn't run for 4,000 career rushing yards in college. No,
09:52the guy was in a backfield that has two potential first round draft picks to come out of that backfield.
10:00Had to split time, had to split carries, but I think he would be a great addition to that Giants
10:07running back room to now. You have a three-headed monster back there and you bring in a guy that
10:13can
10:13come in and be an explosive back and get chunk plays, whether he's running the football in between
10:20or outside of the tackles, catches a football out of the backfield, and most importantly, or maybe not
10:26most importantly, but an extra value is he can do it in a special teams unit as well.
10:32You can see this kid would have been an RB1 in every single backfield in FCS football, but he played
10:39with a running back that was up for the Heisman. You grab Jadarion Price because you think that he could
10:47eventually take over as your RB1. Think about it. You could potentially have Cam Scadaboo, Tyrone Tracy,
10:54and Price in the same backfield and all of these dudes under rookie deals. JP is the prototypical
11:00back of the future. He has a modern NFL running back skill set, that weird ability to run in between
11:07and outside the tackles, as well as having that legit upside of catching the ball out of the backfield,
11:14something that they didn't allow him or need him to do that much of while he was at Notre Dame.
11:19If the Giants don't love Jeremiah at five, then they should definitely pay the second round price
11:26to grab Jadarion Price.
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