Ashton Jeanty 2025 NFL Draft & Dynasty Profile
Ashton Jeanty 2025 NFL Draft & Dynasty Profile
Position: RB | School: Boise State | Class: Junior | Date of Birth: December 2, 2003 | Height: 5-9 | Weight: 215 lbs
Ashton Jeanty Bio
Ashton Jeanty is originally from Jacksonville, Florida but he began his football career as a quarterback for a high school in Naples, Italy. It only took two games before he made the change to running back, finishing his freshman season with over 1,200 yards and 21 touchdowns in just six games. Jeanty moved back to the U.S. where he dominated at Lone Star High School in Frisco, Texas. There, he played football, basketball, and track. On the football side, Jeanty amassed 1,843 rushing yards, 810 receiving yards, and 41 total touchdowns as a senior.
As a four-star recruit in the 2022 class thwarted offers from Cal, Kansas, and Tulane, among others to join the Boise State Broncos. As a freshman, Jeanty split carries with George Holani but still managed 821 rushing yards, 155 receiving yards, and seven touchdowns.
Jeanty continued to share the backfield with Holani in 2023 on his way to 1,347 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns. In the passing game, he was second on the team and first among all running backs in the nation with 569 receiving yards. That came on 43 receptions and resulted in an additional five touchdowns. It was enough to earn Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year, All-Conference first-team, and second-team All-America.
Jeanty’s dominance has continued in 2024. Through nine games, he has racked up 1,734 rushing yards on 224 carries with an incredible 23 rushing touchdowns. He hasn’t been quite as involved in the passing game with just 16 receptions for 93 yards and one touchdown.
College Stats
Positives
- Three-Down skill set
- Good Vision
- Receiving Weapon
- Reliable hands
- 19.9% best season reception share (2023)
- Breaks tackles
- Elite contact balance
- Patience
- Decisive runner
- 48% best season touchdown share (2024 – through 9 games)
- 2.9 yards per team play (2024 – through 9 games)
Negatives
- Pass protection
- Runs with a high pad level
- Lacks elite breakaway speed
- Underwhelming in short yardage situations
Highlight Reel
Archetype: All-Purpose
NFL Comp: TBD
Performance Score: TBD
Draft Projection: Top-15
NFL Draft & Dynasty Outlook:
Ashton Jeanty is the most natural runner in college football. He runs with good patience and vision with incredible contact balance and change of direction. He’s a fluid runner with exceptional agility, strength, quickness, and a low-center of gravity that allows him to avoid tacklers in a number of ways. Jeanty does a great job of setting up and following his blockers to find the crease in a defense. He then utilizes his burst and acceleration to quickly get up to the next level with the speed to house it.
When the blocking isn’t so clean, Jeanty still does a great job navigating through traffic. And when you do get hands on him, Jeanty has a full arsenal of tackle-breaking techniques plus the leg drive to ensure he always falls forward and captures every last blade of grass.
While long runs were routine for Jeanty at the college level, they may not be as frequent in the NFL. He certainly has the requisite speed to create chunk plays, but he may not have the next level gear to run away from some of the faster defensive backs.
In the passing game, Jeanty has reliable hands and can be a weapon as a receiver. He was highly productive as an option out of the backfield during his sophomore season. NFL teams will appreciate his three-down versatility, especially if he is able to make progress in pass protection. The willingness is there, the technique just needs refining.
Speaking of the NFL, Jeanty’s game will translate very well to the next level. He will thrive as a dual-threat back who can handle a full bell-cow role. He will have success in multiple different schemes but would be especially dominant on outside zone concepts where he can utilize his exceptional footwork, vision, decisiveness, and burst. Jeanty will most certainly hear his name called during the first round of the NFL Draft with the top-15 well within the range of outcomes. In dynasty, Jeanty all-but has the 1.01 locked up in single quarterback formats.
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