Like the Las Vegas Raiders selected Ashton Jeanty in the draft of the NFLPete Carroll's phone started to light up.
A ball carrier, with the sixth overall selection?
Ballom Marshawn Lynch wanted to celebrate with the head coach who supervised four of his five seasons Pro Bowl. So he called. And called.
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“He called the whole evening here, he is quite excited,” said Carroll late Thursday while the first round wrapped. “Throughout her career, (Lynch) has found a physical way to rock people and bounce back and stay alive. (Jeanty) 'His player that shows this kind of style – it's an aspect of his style, the bursting and other things he does too.
“There are similarities in its ability to play games when it does not seem that something is there.”
It is too early to crown Jeanty as the next Lynch, who is currently turning the recruit of 10,413 professional yards and 85 professional affected. But the talent and the character of Jeanty forced the raiders to reverse several champion trends Saquon Barkleythe second overall choice among the New York Giants.
Las Vegas raiders who run Ashton Jeanty and head coach Pete Carroll hope to enjoy more smiles together during the 2025 NFL season. (Heidi Fang / Las Vegas Review-Journal / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
(Las Vegas Review-Journal via Getty Images)
Timing may not be a coincidence. The first -year general manager of raiders, John Spytek, looked at what Barkley did last year during his first year with the Philadelphia Eaglesincluding the Super Bowl Run he anchored.
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Spytek has redesigned his own time as an outside secondary of the University of Michigan and considered the wisdom of the League on how to maximize the draft choices in the first round. Then he ignored it.
“I just don't know where we arrived in a place where we do not have the impression that the runners are valued,” said Spytek at a press conference by previewing the 2025 project. “We have just seen Saquon Barkley change the Eagles in a year and now they had an excellent team around them and that added an elite player.
“When you sit where we sit down, the idea is to add elite players to any position. I am not trying to devalue a certain position.”
Raiders have also not devalued entertainment of popular opinion on their strategy project.
Writing of Brock Bowers then Ashton Jeanty gives raiders rare combo
The editorial staff of Jeanty Sixth in the general classification was expensive but not wild. THE Falcons of Atlanta written Sesame Robinson eighth two years ago, and before the second choice of Barkley in 2018, the Dallas Cowboys took Ezekiel Elliott Fourth in 2016.
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The editorial staff of running backs occurs strongly, so less often than in the previous history of the NFL.
But the devaluation, according to some, occurs more on the last taking into account the wear of wear than on the value of a recruit.
“The RB contributes more their first 4 to 5 years than many other positions,” said a director of the NFC. “The fifth year option is worth it. Just think it's delicate because, in all likelihood, does not want the extension afterwards.”
These second contract considerations deeply influenced the trends in the first round project.
The philosophies of the club project have factor in a myriad of data points, gaps in alignment to the depth of relative position in the project class with wage ceiling considerations.
Sign a quarter to a megadéal a quarter? The teams almost agreed that they will have to pay the light elsewhere to transport contracts which have reached $ 60 million per year. Payment of runners, receivers and payment plated of the Elite can also hamper the teams.
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The specter of these contracts has encouraged many teams to spend leading capital, and in particular the first round choices with fifth year contract options, on positions that will generate the most “excess” value.
The short version of philosophy: the more expensive the veteran contract is in a position, the more it is useful to have a player in this position on a recruited salary agreement.
This, in addition to the supply in a part of what the League calls for its “premium” positions, sends these players who often climb draft boards.
But for two consecutive years, the raiders watched another direction. Drafting BROCK BOWERS With the 13th choice in total last year and Jeanty with the sixth choice in total this year, the Raiders took advantage of the teams by prioritizing the premium needs to hang the best players in their respective positions in consecutive years.
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The two-year plan was not a two-year plan in the traditional sense: Vegas has a new head coach, managing director and even owner of a very influential minority who influenced this project after being there to select Bowers. Two regimes rather than one has done this.
The trend is nevertheless unusual, the raiders only become the fourth team since 2000 to spend first round choices on the tight side and the current in the two years, revealed that the data of Trumedia and the NFL Research.
Most teams prioritize value in another way. But for the raiders, which Carroll described as a team that “at the moment, we are building” rather than ready … could it work?
Many NFL talent assessors have considered this project to contain three talents of “blue chip” or high level:
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Colorado / defensive back receiver Travis Hunter, which Jacksonville Jaguars Second section in the general classification
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Penn State Edge Rusher Abdul Carter, which the Giants have selected third
So, once the raiders decided that they were not afraid to write A Running back, it was not difficult to decide to write This Running back at six years old.
Most of the 4,769 yards on the ground of Jeanty and 50 touched on the ground came in the past three years, when Jeanty has cemented in FBS records.
Its 2,601 yards on the ground last season? Second in the history of FBS. Its 2,739 melee yards? Third in the history of FBS.
And Jeanty particularly prospered in two advanced statistical categories. Never before has an FBS player had 1,970 yards on the ground After Contact and never before an FBS player forced 164 missed plated.
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“It's not a guy who will just run in the wall,” said Carroll. “He will find his way for the most space available with this wonderful creativity that the great runners have always shown me.
“He has the ability to do everything for us.”
Jeanty prides himself on this versatility by operating with the vision of the field and the tackle break in adjusting his role if necessary to support the team.
He watched Lynch grow just while Lynch, exploding Carroll's phone, now plans to look at him. He sees the similarities and wants to imitate physicity and game.
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Like Lynch or not, Jeanty is ready to show the raiders why their choice was the right and the league why the half-designs have not yet been put in fashion.
“I'm going to show everyone why the post is precious,” said Jeanty. “It's great to take an exceptional ball carrier in the first round.”
