Raiders select Ashton Jeanty with 6th pick in 2025 NFL Draft

Boise State prima and Heisman Trophy finalist Ashton Jeanty is heading to the Las Vegas Raiders, arsenic helium becomes the archetypal moving backmost disconnected the draught committee arsenic expected. 

While the Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars were caller imaginable destinations for Jeanty entering Thursday night, it was ever the Raiders who helium was connected with. 

A squad that struggled successful the tally crippled tremendously past season, finishing past successful the league successful presumption of production.

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Dec 31, 2024; Glendale, AZ, USA; Boise State Broncos moving backmost Ashton Jeanty (2) practices earlier the Fiesta Bowl against the Penn State Nittany Lions astatine State Farm Stadium. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images)

Jeanty figures to leap close into Pete Carroll's discourtesy and get to enactment with caller Raiders backmost Geno Smith handing the shot disconnected to him. 

Las Vegas continues to physique their offense, which besides features prima Brock Bowers, who had rather the rookie run successful 2024 aft the Raiders took him successful the archetypal round. 

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Running backs person usually been devalued connected the archetypal time of the Draft, but Jeanty rapidly cemented himself arsenic a apical 10 enactment aft what helium was capable to showcase for the Broncos. 

The cleanable equilibrium of powerfulness and speed, Jeanty, astatine 5-foot-9, 211 pounds is the home-run-hitting backmost that teams imagination astir – deliberation Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry uncovering a seam and exploiting it for a agelong touchdown. 

Boise State Broncos moving backmost Ashton Jeanty (2) against the Penn State Nittany Lions during the Fiesta Bowl astatine State Farm Stadium connected Dec. 31, 2024.  (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

Jeanty did that a fewer times per crippled past season, racking up 29 rushing touchdowns to decorativeness 2nd successful the FBS successful that category. He besides led the state with 7.0 yards averaged per carry, and helium led the NCAA with 2,750 all-purpose yards. 

While his explosive velocity and cutting quality tin marque defenders miss, helium is besides highly hard to instrumentality to the ground, bouncing disconnected tackles and warring for much than conscionable a mates other yards aft contact. 

It’s wherefore linebackers person to cheat to the extracurricular because, much times than not, antiaircraft backs were incapable to get Jeanty connected the crushed adjacent if they had bully tackling form. 

Jeanty tallied a tally of astatine slightest 50 yards oregon much successful 9 of his 14 games past season, and if it wasn’t for Colorado’s Travis Hunter, who went to the Cleveland Browns 2nd wide successful this Draft, Jeanty would apt person ran distant with the Heisman. 

Dec 31, 2024; Glendale, AZ, USA; Boise State Broncos moving backmost Ashton Jeanty (2) reacts aft the crippled against the Penn State Nittany Lions successful the Fiesta Bowl astatine State Farm Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

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Of course, the pros volition supply bigger players and bigger challenges for Jeanty, but galore peg him to beryllium a aboriginal All-Pro and the Raiders surely anticipation that’s the lawsuit with them. 

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