PRO 2026 Rookie Spotlight: Jadarian Price, RB Notre Dame
Height: 5′ 11″
Weight: 203
2026 Age: 23 – (10/09/03)
Hands: 9 5/8’’
Arm: 30 7/8’’
Official 40: 4.49
Breakout Age: N/A
NFL Play-Style Comparison: Jerome Ford, Miles Sanders
Draft Grade: 6.27 (2nd Round)
1,000+ Rushing Seasons: 0
Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season)
Carries: 113
Receptions: 6
Scrimmage Yards: 761
Scrimmage TDs: 13
Total Production Percentage: 16.2%
High School: Denison (Denison, TX)
As a high school prospect: Class of 2022; 4-star (5.8)
College Attended: Notre Dame
Pros
– Creates downhill pressure as soon as he touches the football
– Has a good feel for blocking schemes and run game development.
– Split a backfield with our RB1 in the 2026 Class, Jeremiyah Love. Piling up a 16% Production Share.
– 3.5 Attempts per Missed Tackle Forced (Tied Jeremiyah Love in 2025 at 3.5)
Cons
– 3 Fumbles in 2025. One in the previous two seasons.
– 0 Career Games with 18+ touches, only one game with 15 touches.
– Good tackle breaker, but gets tripped up by the first defender too often.
– 126th graded Pass Blocking RB out of 137 in the Power 4, per PFF.
– Left Achilles Injury in 2022.
Highlight/Film – (#24 in Blue vs. USC)
Scouting Notes:
Jadarian Price’s game at Notre Dame is enjoyably digestible, with a great feel for the blocking scheme and development, his fluidly creating downhill pressure on almost every carry and trusting what is on the other side of the OL’s rear-end on every carry. Unlike his counterpart, Jeremiyah Love, Price doesn’t make the first defender miss every time, though he did average 3.5 carries per Missed Tackle Forced (the same as Love in 2025).
Price is often ridiculed because of his lack of overall output in his career at Notre Dame. However, as an NFL Prospect, I love it – With 280 career rush attempts, averaging 6 yards per carry, Price showed his tools and abilities across the entire football field. The only questions that exist on his profile are his overall workload; he has just 15 career receptions (6 in 2025) and 0 career games with 18+ touches. He has just 1 game with 15 attempts, which came against North Carolina State in 2025, when he finished with 15 carries and 66 yards.
Historical Running Back Teammates Drafted in the Top 50
- Quinshon Judkins (36th overall) – TreVeyon Henderson (38th overall) from Ohio State in 2025
- Sony Michel (31st overall) – Nick Chubb (35th overall) from Georgia in 2018
- Darren McFadden (4th overall) – Felix Jones (22nd overall) from Arkansas in 2008
- Reggie Bush (2nd overall) – LenDale White (45th overall) from USC in 2006
- Ronnie Brown (2nd overall) – Cadillac Williams (5th overall) from Auburn in 2005





