SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Senior wide receiver Malachi Fields, junior running back Jeremiyah Love and senior safety Jalen Stroman have been named to the 2026 Senior Bowl Top 300.
Fields, a Biletnikoff Award Watch List selection, transferred to Notre Dame in the summer of 2025 from Virginia. He ranks tied for seventh in the nation among all FBS players in consecutive games with a reception (27). Fields has played in 36-career games, starting 25. He has posted 129 receptions for 1,849 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Fields has posted more than 800 receiving yards in each of the past two seasons, in addition to five touchdowns in both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. In 2024, he garnered third-team All-ACC honors and fourth-team Phil Steele All-ACC honors. In 2023, he was a semifinalist for the Comeback Player of the Year Award.
His 2024 season was productive for Virginia, with several standout performances. Fields posted career highs of 11 receptions and 148 yards at Wake Forest, while he scored twice on four receptions and 65 yards at Coastal Carolina. He scored the go-ahead touchdown en route to a four-catch, 63-yard performance at Boston College, a game in which he also completed a 29-yard pass.
Stroman joins the Irish in 2025 from Virginia Tech. Through his career to this point, he has played in 36 games, starting eight, totaling 111 tackles (55 solo) and 2.0 TFL. He has posted four pass breakups over his career. He suffered a season-ending injury in his first game of 2024, but played in 11 games both in 2023 and 2022. In 2023 vs. Purdue, Stroman led the team with a career-high 14 tackles, including two tackles for loss.
Love, already named an Associated Press and Walter Camp Preseason All-American and to the watch lists for the Maxwell Award and the Doak Walker Award, comes off a statement 2024 campaign for Notre Dame. He rushed for a touchdown in each of the first 13 games of 2024 and totaled 17 rushing touchdowns, in addition to two receiving touchdowns. Love posted 1,125 rushing yards in 2024, the 21st time an Irish player has broken the 1,000-yard rushing mark in a season.
He averaged 6.9 yards per carry, which ranked ninth nationally in 2024 among players with 100 or more carries, and he tied for second among all single-season 1,000-yard rushers in ND records (Reggie Brooks, 1992, 8.0 – 1,343; Josh Adams, 2017, 6.9 – 1,430).
Love was the only FBS player to score a rushing touchdown in every regular season game that season. He broke the record for the most consecutive games with a rushing touchdown in Notre Dame history with 13 (passing 11 – Wayne Bullock, 1973-74, 17 total rushing TDs during streak). The 13-consecutive games to start a season is also a program record, besting Autry Denson’s season-opening run of 10 in 1998
Notre Dame’s rushing offense ranked No. 4 among the Power 4 in yards per carry (5.66), ranking No. 7 among all FBS teams. The Irish ranked No. 6 among Power 4 teams in rushing offense (210.8).
Love, Jadarian Price and Riley Leonard each had at least 700 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns in 2024, the only FBS team to have a trio accomplish that feat that season. Notre Dame tied for second at the end of the regular season among all FBS teams in rushes of 50 or more yards with seven (by four players, with seven touchdowns).
With 45 rushing touchdowns in 2024, the Irish led all Power 4 teams and ranked third among all FBS programs in rushing touchdowns.