HENDERSON, Nev. \u2013 The Las Vegas Raiders have signed first-round draft pick RB Ashton Jeanty, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jeanty was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. The 5-foot-8, 211-pound running back played in 40 career games over three seasons at Boise State (2022-24), amassing 4,769 rushing yards and 50 rushing touchdowns on 750 career rushes (6.4 avg.). He also added 80 career receptions for 862 yards (10.8 avg.) and six touchdowns.<\/p>\n
As a junior in 2024, Jeanty was the Heisman Trophy runner-up and a unanimous All-American after leading the NCAA with 2,601 rushing yards, the second most in a single season in FBS history – only behind Barry Sanders (2,628). He also established an FBS record with 14 games of 100-plus rushing yards, while his 29 rushing touchdowns were the second-most in the NCAA and tied for seventh in FBS history, and his 2,739 yards from scrimmage ranked first in the NCAA and the third-most in FBS history.<\/p>\n
A native of Jacksonville, Fla., Jeanty attended Lone Star High School in Frisco, Texas, where as a senior he recorded 1,843 yards on 229 carries and 810 yards on 41 receptions, while scoring 41 total touchdowns (31 rushing and 10 receiving).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Nev. \u2013 The Las Vegas Raiders have signed first-round draft pick RB Ashton Jeanty, the club announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1303,7,268,269,2818,6477,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-34946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-ashton-jeanty","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-centerpiece","11":"tag-home-latest-stories","12":"tag-news-press-release","13":"tag-news-transactions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114474851293768683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946","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=34946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}