Why Raiders should not draft Ashton Jeanty with No. 6 choose

The Las Vegas Raiders are one of many first main wild playing cards within the 2025 NFL Draft, which begins on April 24 in Inexperienced Bay. In typical Raiders trend, there is no such thing as a actual consensus on what they could do with their No. 6 total choose, however there are a number of intriguing choices for them.

A quarterback, particularly Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, could possibly be in play as a long-term choose to take a seat behind veteran Geno Smith for a few years.

They’ve main wants throughout their roster. 

However the much more seemingly, and maybe much more intriguing, possibility is Boise State working again Ashton Jeanty. 

The Raiders have been the favorites to land the highest working again prospect, and on Friday common supervisor John Spytek was requested about the potential of taking him on the prime of the draft, per NFL.com’s Grant Gordon.

Earlier than he may even reply, head coach Pete Carroll instructed him to “watch out.” 

Spytek then talked in regards to the significance of including elite gamers and drew a comparability to Saquon Barkley’s affect on the Philadelphia Eagles.

“I am gonna watch out about speaking about any particular participant. However, extra broadly to the working again query, I imply, we simply noticed Saquon Barkley simply change the Eagles in a single 12 months. Now that they had an amazing workforce round him, and it was including an elite participant. I believe once you sit the place we sit, the thought is so as to add elite gamers at any place. I do not attempt to devalue any sure place.”

The Jeanty choose goes to be a sophisticated one for no matter workforce finally ends up taking him within the first spherical. 

He’s unquestionably one of the crucial proficient gamers within the draft, the most effective at his place and was a completely dominant participant in school. There are a whole lot of issues to love about him, and he can completely change an offense and a workforce if the whole lot goes in keeping with plan.

The hot button is it needs to be the correct workforce and the correct offense. 

The Barkley comparability really presents fairly a cautionary story for a workforce just like the Raiders, and Spytek even unintentionally talked about it in his reply: The Eagles already “had an amazing workforce round him.” 

Barkley was additionally signed as a free agent. The Eagles didn’t have to make use of a top-10 choose so as to add him into their group. 

He was the ultimate piece of their Tremendous Bowl puzzle, not one of many beginning items.

One of many greatest causes the working again place grew to become so devalued in recent times wasn’t simply due to how quick their careers are. Additionally it is due to how dependent their manufacturing and affect is on the workforce and state of affairs round them. They want an amazing line, a powerful passing recreation and a superb system for the whole lot to click on. 

Barkley had none of that when he performed for the New York Giants after they chose him with a No. 2 total choose. As an alternative of getting him be the ultimate piece of their offense, he was the piece they tried to construct round. And whereas Barkley had some particular person success, it was not the identical as he skilled in Philadelphia. The workforce success was nowhere near the identical. It was not as a result of he was completely different. The state of affairs was completely different.

It’s a comparable story with the latest working again to be picked within the prime 10, Atlanta Falcons working again Bijan Robinson. He’s nice, dynamic and makes a whole lot of performs. However remainder of the Falcons offense is so flawed that it has not but made a huge effect on their offense or their workforce success. 

Jeanty could possibly be a steal and fast affect participant for someone within the first spherical. But it surely must be a workforce that already has a lot of the different core gamers in place. 

Are the Raiders that workforce? There must be some doubt about that, and the Raiders want to concentrate on that.