{"id":122254,"date":"2025-06-11T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122254\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:38:12","slug":"daniel-carlson-breaks-silence-on-giving-up-jersey-number-to-ashton-jeanty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122254\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Carlson Breaks Silence on Giving up Jersey Number to Ashton Jeanty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Carlson Breaks Silence on Giving up Jersey Number to Ashton Jeanty<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After averaging a league-worst 79.8 yards per game on the ground last year, the Las Vegas Raiders splurged on running back Ashton Jeanty with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

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Jeanty, who ran for 2,601 yards and 29 touchdowns in 2024, was nicknamed “Deuce” while at Boise State because he wore No. 2 on his jersey. Unfortunately, that number belonged to Raiders’ All-Pro kicker Daniel Carlson when he was drafted.<\/p>\n

However, Carlson ultimately gave up the uniform number to the rookie shortly after the draft. Jeanty admitted on an episode of Up & Adams<\/a>\u00a0that he paid a hefty price to buy the number off the veteran.<\/p>\n

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Carlson recently broke his silence on the matter, however, when he spoke to the media<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. He talked about his initial impressions of Jeanty and how the negotiation process went.<\/p>\n

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“I mean, just a high character guy, so it was really easy,” Carlson said. “I wouldn’t even call it a negotiation necessarily. Just a couple discussions, you know, it was super great. And I mean, everything I’ve seen on the field so far, I’m no expert, but he looks the part for sure.”<\/p>\n

When one reporter tried to figure out exactly how much Jeanty sent him, Carlson had a tongue and cheek response.<\/p>\n

“No, no new cars,” Carlson laughed.<\/p>\n

Carlson is looking to rebound this season after making just 85.0% of his field goals in 2024, which was his lowest mark since his second year in 2019. He earned back-to-back All-Pro honors in 2021 and 2022, but he has not reached that level in two years.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps his changing back to the No. 8 will rejuvenate Carlson and allow him to leave the 2024 season in the past. Jeanty, by that same token, will be looking to give new life to the No. 2 in 2025.<\/p>\n

Related: Ashton Jeanty Receives 4-Word Message From Raiders OL Jackson Powers-Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Raiders Reportedly Using Ashton Jeanty in Unique Role at OTAs<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Raiders Legend Tim Brown Drops Surprising Player Comparison for Ashton Jeanty<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 11, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Carlson Breaks Silence on Giving up Jersey Number to Ashton Jeanty originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[1303,8726,7,6413,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-122254","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-daniel-carlson","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jeanty","12":"tag-las-vegas","13":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","14":"tag-lasvegas","15":"tag-lasvegasraiders","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114666662062369885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122254","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=122254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}