Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty\u2019s return to standing up straight in the backfield has the approval of head coach Pete Carroll. <\/p>\n
Jeanty went back to that stance for Sunday\u2019s game against the Bears and posted a season-high 138 rushing yards on 21 carries. Jeanty had altered the stance at the request of the coaching staff after being drafted in the first round, but said after Sunday\u2019s loss that it feels more natural to stand up straight and \u201cit\u2019s just how<\/a> I\u2019m gonna play\u201d from now on. <\/p>\n \u201cI loved it,\u201d Carroll said at his Monday press conference. <\/p>\n The Raiders also got 62 yards from Raheem Mostert on Sunday and Carroll said the emergence of the running game was a welcome development despite the result. <\/p>\n \u201cEverybody\u2019s been saying he just needs to break one run or whatever,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cWell, he did, and he had a great game, and he looked fantastic for us, and Raheem was really good too. I thought the two complemented each other well. . . Watching the film last night, I saw nothing but upside because the ability to run the football, to have a running back that is a real threat, a running game that\u2019s a real threat, allows us so much balance.\u201d<\/p>\n The Raiders will try to keep things rolling on the ground as they try to snap their three-game losing streak against the Colts in Week 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty\u2019s return to standing up straight in the backfield has the approval of head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-191383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}