{"id":687539,"date":"2026-05-22T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:04:09","slug":"ashton-jeanty-already-among-nfls-best-in-key-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687539\/","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":687540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1281,64,63,5358,28654,19870,218632,5364,1240,23172,2623,1250,2627,593,125407,85],"class_list":["post-687539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ashton-jeanty","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-derrick-henry","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","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}