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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Mike Washington — Week 2: Three Carries, Seven Yards

  Washington carried three times for seven yards and was thrown to once, incomplete. One of the carries came at the Chargers 13 with 3:09 left, the snap after Ashton Jeanty was hurt and the snap before Cody White's touchdown. Jeanty carried 21 times, in a 26–14 win over the Chargers.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Mike Washington — Week 1: Seven Carries, an Eighteen-Yarder

  Washington carried seven times for forty-one yards, thirty-five of them on four second-quarter carries, including an eighteen-yard run on second and two that set up Ashton Jeanty's first touchdown. Jeanty carried twenty-three times; Washington was the second back in a rotation of two, in a 27–13 win over the Dolphins.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Mike Washington Camp Update — August 31: Week One Snaps, Pending Jeanty

  Washington made the initial fifty-three, and the team site lists him among four rookies who could see substantial Week One action — his inclusion expressly conditioned on Ashton Jeanty's health. He closed the preseason with eight carries for roughly fifty yards in the finale, and cut day removed Dare Ogunbowale and Roman Hemby from the room.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Mike Washington Camp Update — August 23: Fifty-Six More Yards Against Houston

  Washington backed up last week's long run with a stiff-arm touchdown in the joint practice and a nine-carry, fifty-six-yard game in Houston, including a thirty-three-yarder. Two weeks, two productive outings — the athlete keeps showing up, in the same backup lane.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Mike Washington Camp Update — August 16: A Fifty-Three-Yard Stiff-Arm Makes the Case

  The rookie ran for sixty-three yards in the preseason opener, including a fifty-three-yard stiff-arm run that stands as the Raiders' longest preseason run since 2017. The June read said the athlete was the draw and the role was the ceiling, and both showed up Thursday.

• 2026 PreviewJul 2, 2026

  Mike Washington Jr. 2026 Season Preview — what we know, and what nobody does

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  Show notes & transcript

  The fastest running back at the combine weighs 228 pounds and costs pick one 89. The catch: the man in front of him just handled the biggest rookie workload in football.

  The record: the Raiders traded up to pick one 22 for the Arkansas back, per the team site, off a season the club credits at a thousand and 70 rushing yards. The combine is the headline: four-three-three, the fastest back there, at six-two two-28, per raiders.com. The scouting director called him a wide-zone fit on the record in April.

  The situation: Ashton Jeanty owns this backfield — verified, 266 carries and 55 catches as a rookie — and the team's July position preview frames Washington as the tandem partner with, quote, a great opportunity to earn a substantial amount of carries in training camp. New coaching staff, new offense: Klint Kubiak arrived in February off the Super Bowl win in Seattle, per NFL.com. Nobody trades up to redshirt track speed at two-28 — and nobody is taking the ball from Jeanty either.

  So the stance writes itself: this is a handcuff price on an unusually interesting athlete, and every projection you'll hear about touches is a guess wearing a spreadsheet. We tested whether combine speed and draft slot predict rookie output — they don't, not at a standard we'd cite. September is the evidence.

  Watch: preseason carries behind Jeanty — a clear two-man rotation versus a committee-of-three tells you the plan — and any goal-line package usage at that size. Your whole roster gets this treatment every week — that's the show.