Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price rewrote the backfield narrative at Notre Dame and now have NFL evaluators buzzing because they could be the next true Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders story — two elite running backs from the same program who project as difference-makers at the next level. This isn’t just about college production or individual skill sets; it’s about how these two backs forced defenses to account for them in completely different ways and how that dynamic could carry over into the NFL in historic fashion.
In the mid-1980s at Oklahoma State, Thomas and Sanders redefined what a backfield could be.