• Ashton Jeanty is one of the best running back prospects of the last decade: Bijan Robinson and Saquon Barkley are the only running backs to rank as high as Jeanty on both consensus big boards and the PFF big board.
  
• A potential first-round redraft selection: As long as Jeanty lands on a decent team where he can be the apparent lead running back, his ADP could end up among the top 12 players by August.
  
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Jeanty has been a genuinely dominant running back for Boise State. He earned a rushing grade above 90.0 in his first season, leading to a starting role in 2023. He averaged over 160 yards per game in 2023 and over 200 in 2024, unheard of by a running back. Of the top 11 projected rookie running backs, Jeanty had the highest avoided tackles per attempt rate, the highest percentage of his yards came after contact and the highest yards per carry. He’s avoided 85 more tackles than any other running back in the class. 

Some of his rate metrics weren’t as good as other running backs, but it’s challenging to lead the FBS in both volume and efficiency metrics when Jeanty averaged over 18 carries per game throughout his career. While his numbers in any specific situation were generally strong, he was most ridiculous on perfectly blocked plays and plays against seven-man boxes. The difference between Jeanty being a first-round pick in fantasy drafts and the second round could be how good the run blocking is on his new team and how much he could avoid eight-man boxes.

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