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The meat of NFL season is over, and with the Week 18 schedule lighter on stakes outside of Lions-Vikings, the NFC South and AFC wild-card race, we’re going to turn our attention to college football to start the new year — particularly the College Football Playoff and how the remaining teams stand in terms of NFL draft talent. There’s no better place to start than Boise State, who may have the best overall player in the entire class.
Ashton Jeanty is a first-round running back, period
Do not bring the words “positional value” to the table when discussing Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty. Jeanty has been the most dominant offensive player in college football this year and would have won the Heisman Trophy if there hadn’t been a guy named Travis Hunter who won the Bednarik and Biletnikoff awards this year. Jeanty’s feats this season are simply incredible, and he is the reason why Boise State was able to grab a bye in the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff.
In 13 games this season, Jeanty rushed for a whopping 2,497 yards and 29 touchdowns! He’s just 131 yards away from tying Barry Sanders’ record for most rushing yards in a season (2,628 in 1988) and probably would have surpassed it if he didn’t miss a few second halves, due to score margin, at the start of the season. Level of competition be damned — if it was this easy to run for this many yards in the Mountain West, more players would have done it. There are no qualifiers for Jeanty’s season, even if Penn State shuts him down in the Fiesta Bowl. He’s a remarkable running back and simply one of the best players in the upcoming draft class.
There doesn’t really seem to be a glaring hole in Jeanty’s game that would prevent him from being a top player quickly in the NFL. He might not run a 4.2 40-yard dash, but he’s got plenty of breakaway speed considering he had a run of at least 50 yards in nine of the 13 games he’s played so far — with four of those games featuring runs…
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Publish date : 2024-12-31 20:59:00
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