{"id":355640,"date":"2025-09-10T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355640\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:30:14","slug":"what-held-ashton-jeanty-back-from-better-nfl-debut-raiders-pete-carroll-explains-rookie-rbs-shortcomings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355640\/","title":{"rendered":"What held Ashton Jeanty back from better NFL debut? Raiders&#8217; Pete Carroll explains rookie RB&#8217;s shortcomings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"NFL: Las Vegas Raiders at New England Patriots\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usatsi-27029561-168392061-lowres.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/LV\/las-vegas-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> running back <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/28874008\/ashton-jeantys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashton Jeanty&#8217;s<\/a> highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> debut was not as explosive as some expected from the No. 6 overall pick. He found end zone in the team&#8217;s 20-13 win over the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NE\/new-england-patriots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>, but finished with 19 carries for just 38 yards. Raiders coach Pete Carroll knows Jeanty can be &#8220;way better.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ashton, he was a little, he was hyped. He was jacked up,&#8221; Carroll said during his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v2ZcHmy33_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press conference<\/a>. &#8220;He would tell you, I would think, that he wished he would have been a little more patient on some reads and things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The head coach did not appear worried about Jeanty&#8217;s longterm production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That will come. He didn&#8217;t look like that in preseason,&#8221; Carroll said. &#8220;This game, being out there and being called on to play, carry the ball 19 times or whatever, it was a little bit different for him. And he&#8217;ll play way better. He&#8217;ll see things more clearly. I know he&#8217;s a little frustrated by that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Week 1, Jeanty ran for 2.0 yards per carry, compared to an average of 3.1 yards per carry in the preseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even without the most from their promising first rounder, the Raiders got the win against a Patriots team that looked flat. The Raiders face a more difficult task next week when they play the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/LAC\/los-angeles-chargers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>, who come off a win over the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/KC\/kansas-city-chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty&#8217;s highly anticipated NFL debut was not as explosive as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[1303,63461,1999,7,1507,7297,1744,393,2455,2454,249,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-355640","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-ashton-jeanty-stats","10":"tag-fantasy-football","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-geno-smith","13":"tag-la-chargers","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","16":"tag-lasvegas","17":"tag-lasvegasraiders","18":"tag-new-england-patriots","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115177418270099900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355640","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=355640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}