2025 NFL Draft: Raiders select Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty with No. 6 overall pick

2025 NFL Draft: Raiders select Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty with No. 6 overall pick. From the blue field of Boise State to the Silver and Black, Ashton Jeanty will roam. The Las Vegas Raiders selected Jeanty with the No. 6 overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft on Thursday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, making him the highest running back drafted since Saquon Barkley at No. 2 in 2018.

Jeanty had been linked to the Raiders for weeks now, from new head coach Pete Carroll's love of running backs to new general manager John Spytek admitting at the Annual League Meeting that his own son said he'd walk "out of the family" if the GM passed on the Broncos standout.

In the Raiders' pre-draft news conference, Spytek was clear that he wouldn't shy away from taking a running back at No. 6, and he didn't. With the pick, Jeanty becomes the first RB drafted in the opening round by the franchise since 2019 when Josh Jacobs was taken.

The pre-draft chatter did not go unnoticed by Jeantry, who told reporters on Thursday night that he knew there was "no way the Raiders weren't going to pick me" after he heard about Spytek's sons threat, per The Athletic.

"I am super duper excited," Jeanty added, via The Athletic. "There is lot of history in the Raiders building and I am excited to be a part of that."

Jeanty will be called on to replace Jacobs, who left for the Packers in free agency last year. Las Vegas languished in the run game without Jacobs to the tune of 1,357 yards in 2024, finishing last in the league rushing yards.

Jeanty shined in 2024 on the ground, rushing for nearly double the Raiders' total with his 2,601-yard senior showing.

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