• On tempo for historic dashing numbers: Jeanty is on tempo to interrupt each main single-season faculty dashing report.
• Best receiving again within the nation and hasn’t proven it but: Jeanty led all FBS working backs in PFF receiving grade and yards final 12 months however hasn’t performed a lot on that finish this season.
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“2,500 all-purpose yards, 20-plus touchdowns and I’m going to be in New York for the Heisman [Trophy].”
Those have been the lofty expectations that Boise State working again Ashton Jeanty set for himself again in March throughout PFF’s unique interview with him.
Based on the primary 4 video games of the season, he could have been promoting himself brief. Jeanty’s 845 dashing yards are 160 greater than every other participant in faculty soccer, whereas his 13 dashing touchdowns clear the sphere by three. He owns the fourth-best Heisman odds (+1000), based on DraftKings Sportsbook. The solely non-Power Five participant to take residence the stiff-arm trophy for the reason that Nineteen Sixties was BYU quarterback Ty Detmer in 1990.
Jeanty is on tempo for a record-shattering season, which is much more spectacular when contemplating two of his 4 video games got here towards then-unbeaten Power Five colleges in Oregon and Washington State.
Ashton Jeanty’s Historic Pace in 2024
| Stat | Ashton Jeanty’s 12-Game Pace | Single-Season Record |
| Rushing Yards | 2,535 | 2,628 (Barry Sanders, 1988) |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 39 | 37 (Barry Sanders, 1988) |
| Rushing Grade | 97.8 | 96.2* (Blake Corum, 2022) |
| Yards After Contact | 1,761 | 1,355* (Jonathan Taylor, 2017) |
| Forced Missed Tackles | 132 | 104* (Bijan Robinson, 2022) |
*Since PFF started charting faculty soccer in 2014
Keep in thoughts, that’s solely Jeanty’s present tempo for the remainder of the common season. He might put up even gaudier stats if Boise State performs within the Mountain West Championship Game or the College Football Playoff, one thing that’s very attainable, contemplating the Broncos are at the moment the highest-ranked Group of Five crew (No. 21).
Perhaps unbelievably, Jeanty has but to indicate off arguably his finest trait: his receiving means. In highschool, Jeanty performed principally extensive receiver earlier than switching to working again full-time as a senior. That pass-catching means translated to the faculty recreation, serving to Jeanty rack up 578 receiving yards as a sophomore — 95 greater than every other FBS working again. His 91.6 PFF receiving grade that season was 6.5 factors larger than the subsequent closest tailback. So far this 12 months, Jeanty has solely six catches for 19 yards on 11 targets.
Ashton Jeanty’s Career Receiving Numbers
Jeanty entered the season as the perfect receiving again in faculty soccer, and now he’s clearly the perfect rusher in faculty soccer. All of that mixed makes him a top-10 prospect on PFF’s 2025 NFL Draft massive board, a rarity these days for working backs. He’s drawn comparisons to the likes of Alvin Kamara and Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson.
Jeanty is within the midst of a historic season on the bottom and appears each bit like a professional Heisman Trophy candidate, simply as he predicted seven months in the past.