{"id":74578,"date":"2025-05-24T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/74578\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T04:17:09","slug":"raiders-rb-ashton-jeanty-wasnt-willing-to-give-up-no-2-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/74578\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty &#8216;wasn&#8217;t willing&#8217; to give up No. 2 jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/83749615007-2214262485.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ashton Jeanty paid six figures to fellow Raider for number 2<\/p>\n<p>USAT&#8217;s Tyler Dragon asks about the amount of money new Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty paid for his number 2.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Seriously<\/p>\n<p>The number two is extremely important to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" data-autotag=\"ce712068-67db-47b5-b6da-5d6ec8fefe0f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/05\/23\/breakout-rookie-candidates-nfl-32-teams\/83795880007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashton Jeanty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just means a lot to me and my family. A lot of my family who played sports wore No. 2,\u201d Jeanty told USA TODAY Sports, during a promotional appearance with Sharpie. \u201cThen I was born on December 2. The legacy, the greatness, and I was born that day. There&#8217;s just a lot of meaning behind it. And for the brand, I wasn&#8217;t willing to give it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeanty wore No. 2 at\u00a0Lone Star High School in Frisco, Texas, and at Boise State, where he became the school\u2019s all-time leading rusher, achieved the second-highest single-season rushing total in FBS history and was a Heisman Trophy finalist.<\/p>\n<p>When the Raiders selected Jeanty in the first round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 NFL Draft<\/a>, he wanted to wear No. 2 at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Literally.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanty negotiated with Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson for the number. Carlson had worn No. 2 for the past five seasons. The kicker sported No. 8 when he first joined the Raiders in 2018 but changed to No. 2 to accommodate Marcus Mariota when the QB arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now, Carlson is going back to No. 8 because Jeanty paid a hefty price for the number.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanty told Kay Adams this week on &#8220;Up and Adams&#8221; that he paid six figures for the number. The running back confirmed the price tag to USA TODAY Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true,\u201d Jeanty said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanty wouldn\u2019t specify the exact amount he paid for his beloved number, but the running back did say Carlson could purchase a luxury car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could buy a nice Mercedes,\u201d a smiling Jeanty said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders officially signed Jeanty to his rookie contract on May 8. His contract is worth a total value of $35.9 million, so it\u2019s safe to say he could afford the six-figure amount he paid Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>Follow USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Tyler Dragon on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTylerDragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@TheTylerDragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashton Jeanty paid six figures to fellow Raider for number 2 USAT&#8217;s Tyler Dragon asks about the amount&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[247,265,9926,4143,8726,7,523,1744,393,2455,2454,1862,11695,1863,248,267,88,6,245,537,529,530,525,9,266,24,528,536,524],"class_list":{"0":"post-74578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-carlson","11":"tag-daniel","12":"tag-daniel-carlson","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-las","15":"tag-las-vegas","16":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","17":"tag-lasvegas","18":"tag-lasvegasraiders","19":"tag-marcus","20":"tag-marcus-mariota","21":"tag-mariota","22":"tag-national","23":"tag-national-sports","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-point","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-raiders","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-sports-news","33":"tag-the","34":"tag-to","35":"tag-to-the-point","36":"tag-vegas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114560882661304330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74578","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=74578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}