{"id":898227,"date":"2026-05-22T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/898227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:21:15","slug":"ashton-jeanty-already-among-nfls-best-in-key-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/898227\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Jeanty already among NFL\u2019s best in key area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Let\u2019s face it; Ashton Jeanty\u2019s rookie season didn\u2019t go quite as expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Big immediate things were anticipated from the Boise State running back when the Las Vegas Raiders selected him with the No. 6 overall draft pick in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yet, Jeanty had his struggles at times. Yes, his offensive coaching staff and his offensvie line didn\u2019t do him many favors, but Jeanty simply didn;t make a huge imapct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yet, he did flash often and he did shine in a key area that shows he has excellent natural skills as a running back. Per a recent X post by NFL Researcher, Jeanty had 377 rushing yards after forcing missed tackles. It was the seventh highest amount in the NFL and the most among all rookies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jeanty finished with 975 rushing yards as a rookie. Thus, 38.6 percent of his total rushing yards came after forcing missed tackles. That is something to build upon going into this season\/<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In other Raiders\u2019 news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s face it; Ashton Jeanty\u2019s rookie season didn\u2019t go quite as expected. Big immediate things were anticipated from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1303,4127,292,7,3027,6413,1753,110,4076,1744,393,2699,6,6746],"class_list":["post-898227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ashton-jeanty","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-derrick-henry","tag-football","tag-james-cook","tag-jeanty","tag-jonathan-taylor","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kyren-williams","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-nevada","tag-nfl","tag-rushing-yards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116618676425898415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898227","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=898227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}