{"id":112959,"date":"2025-06-08T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/112959\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:38:14","slug":"ashton-jeanty-reveals-biggest-non-maxx-crosby-leader-on-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/112959\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Jeanty Reveals Biggest Non-Maxx Crosby Leader on Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashton Jeanty Reveals Biggest Non-Maxx Crosby Leader on Raiders<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the years, defensive end Maxx Crosby has cemented himself as the face and leader of the Las Vegas Raiders. He came into the NFL as a soft-spoken player out of a small school, but he’s developed into a strong voice for the franchise.<\/p>\n

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Running back Ashton Jeanty is just joining the team, and everybody already knows that Crosby is the leader, but there’s another player standing out to the rookie.<\/p>\n

“On the offensive side, Geno (Smith), of course, just being the quarterback leading everybody, communicating,” Jeanty told Athlon Sports when asked which players outside of Crosby have stood out as a leader. “It’s good to have a guy on both sides of the ball to lead your team.”<\/p>\n

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Las Vegas Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty.Tork Mason &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Smith has only been with the Raiders for a few months, but it makes sense that he’s already standing out as a leader. He’s the team’s quarterback, and he’s been in the NFL for a long time.<\/p>\n

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He knows what it takes to be a strong leader. Last year, Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell weren’t able to take strong leadership roles due to their poor play.<\/p>\n

Smith has proven to be a capable quarterback who can win games, so it’ll be easier for him to command respect. As Jeanty pointed out, the Raiders now have a strong offensive leader in Smith and a strong defensive leader in Crosby.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to see Jeanty eventually becoming a team captain due to the leadership he displayed during his time playing for Boise State.<\/p>\n

Related: Ex-Raider Jon Gruden Floated as Possible HC Replacement for Historic Franchise<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: John Spytek Names GM Who Wanted to Trade for Maxx Crosby<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 7, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashton Jeanty Reveals Biggest Non-Maxx Crosby Leader on Raiders originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Over the years, defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[1303,15035,7,8132,6413,1744,393,2455,2454,6563,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-112959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-ashton-jeanty","9":"tag-athlon-sports","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-gardner-minshew","12":"tag-jeanty","13":"tag-las-vegas","14":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","15":"tag-lasvegas","16":"tag-lasvegasraiders","17":"tag-maxx-crosby","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114646136229478074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}