{"id":64892,"date":"2025-05-20T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/64892\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:44:09","slug":"how-raiders-oc-chip-kelly-persuaded-rookie-rb-ashton-jeanty-to-change-his-famous-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/64892\/","title":{"rendered":"How Raiders OC Chip Kelly persuaded rookie RB Ashton Jeanty to change his famous stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashton Jeanty<\/a> entered the NFL with explosive playmaking ability and an iconic backfield stance. Las Vegas Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly is changing up the latter in hopes of keeping the former.<\/p>\n

Jeanty told Kay Adams on<\/a> Up & Adams<\/a> that Kelly approached him on the first day of Raiders rookie minicamp to talk about the stance.<\/p>\n

“You know, sometimes you have to, you know, go with the flow,” Jeanty said. “What’s crazy is, Chip Kelly comes to me first day of rookie minicamp, and he’s like ‘You ever play basketball?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I play basketball, you know I can dunk and all that.’ He’s like, ‘OK, show me how you would guard me,’ and he’s acting like he’s holding the ball.”<\/p>\n

Jeanty proceeded to show Adams how he would defend in an athletic stance.<\/p>\n

“And then he’s like, ‘That’s exactly why you have to be down in your running back stance,'” he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashton Jeanty entered the NFL with explosive playmaking ability and an iconic backfield stance. Las Vegas Raiders offensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[1227,1303,7,1744,393,2455,2454,88,6,609,4267,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-64892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-ashton-jeanty","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-no-minute","18":"tag-offseason-news","19":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114540227131780534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892","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=64892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}