Ashton Jeanty 2025 Season in Review

Ashton Jeanty finished his rookie year as the number 11 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 16 running back in PPR per game — and the gap between those ranks tells you almost everything. He got the workhorse usage you draft a top-ten back for, but efficiency and team context dragged the per-game number to the middle of the pack. Jeanty played all 17 games on a 3 and 14 Raiders team that finished dead last in offensive expected points added, dead last in rushing expected points added per attempt, and dead last in team yards per carry. He was the engine of one of the worst offenses in football, and volume kept him fantasy-relevant even when the blocking, the game scripts, and the surrounding cast did not.

Now let's get into the numbers. Jeanty handled 266 carries for 975 yards — a 3.7 yards per carry average — with 5 rushing touchdowns, and he chipped in 55 catches on 73 targets for 346 yards and 5 more scores through the air. That receiving role is the quiet reason he finished 11th in total PPR; the rushing efficiency alone would not have gotten him there. His rushing yards over expected came in at minus 50.8 on the season, minus 0.2 per attempt, ranking 41st among qualified runners — raw yardage was a product of volume, not beating what the blocking gave him. Game to game, this was boom-or-bust, not a steady floor. Three games above 24 PPR points, including a 33.5 against the Bears and a 31.8 against the Texans. But eight games under 13, and four under 10 — 6 carries for 7 yards against Dallas, 6 for 21 in the Kansas City shutout, 10 for 30 against Denver. When the Raiders' offense functioned, Jeanty smashed. When it cratered — and it cratered often — he went with it.

The play that captures the year is the Week 16 run at Houston. Fourth quarter, second and 7, Raiders down 14 to 23, ball at the Texans' 51. Jeanty took it up the middle and went 51 yards to the house — a plus 4.77 expected points play, his third touchdown run of 50-plus yards on the season alongside the 64-yarder against Chicago and a 60-yard receiving score, also at Houston. That's the Jeanty fantasy identity in one snapshot: an offense losing by multiple scores, the volume back finally cracking one long enough to salvage a 31.8-point fantasy day in a game his team still lost by two. The ceiling was real and explosive. It just didn't show up every week.