Ashton Jeanty shook university football fans while pursuing records during the 2024 season, making him one of the names to look at the NFL draft on Thursday.
However, fans of Las Vegas Raiders will not be those who watch him during the 2025 NFL season.
“Raiders do not take Ashton Jeanty at six,” the NFL project analyst Todd Mcshay (26:49) said on Tuesday.
He also suggested that the apparent lack of interest of the raiders for Jeanty “could be a questionable point” because there is “buzz” that the Jacksonville jaguars could write the Running Back of Boise at N ° 5 in total.
Jeanty would have a meaning for the jaguars, because they have just hired a head coach with an offensive spirit in Liam Coen and must surround Trevor Lawrence of play leaders to maximize the potential of the quarter in the immediate future.
And there are not many offensive game leaders better than Jeanty in this year’s draft.
He threatened the record for a single season of Barry Sanders of 2,628 yards on the ground on his path at 2,601 yards and 29 hit on the ground as a finalist of the Heisman trophy last season. He also led Broncos as Mountain West Conference and a place in the university football playoffs.
While Jacksonville Travis Etienne Jr. and Tank Bigsby in the rear field, Jeanty brings a higher ceiling than both and could anchor the position of ball bearer alongside Lawrence in the predictable future.
As for the raiders, they are far from being established in the ball carrier with Raheem Mostert potentially online to start. But they must also address a certain number of positions after a dull campaign 4-13 and could still take a ball carrier in the middle or later.
It may be the plan because McShay clearly said he did not believe that the AFC West team would take Jeanty at No. 6.
