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Ashton Jeanty — fantasy football 2026

Every game, every stat category, and what the board says. 14.42 points per game in 2025, an ADP of 14.5, usage worth 16.7.

22 years old · 1 season of experience · 2025 draft class

Updated 2026-08-16 · free, no account, no paywall
Every figure below comes from our database. Where a stat is not held, the row is absent rather than zero.
ADP 14.5
Consensus across 4 books, standard deviation 2.3, 5.1 picks between cheapest and priciest. Cheapest on espn, priciest on underdog.
SLEEPER13.7
ESPN17.8
YAHOO13.7
UNDERDOG12
CBS12.7
FFA11

Draft-room facts

Goes aroundRound 2, pick 3 in a 12-team draft
Positional rankRB8
Bye week13
ADP standard deviation2.3 picks

What we project for 2026

Our board has him at 273.6 points, 17.1 per game — 1,174 rushing yards, 7 rushing TDs, 55.8 catches. That is RB1, 11 overall.

The range runs from a floor of 14.4 points per game to a ceiling of 23.8, with the median at 17.1. Boom rate 39%, bust rate 16%. The spread is the actual bet, not the middle number.

He goes at 14.5 on consensus and our board has him 11. We rank him 3.5 picks better than the room drafts him, so the market is underpricing him — that is the disagreement worth acting on.

Our written view

Tier-1 talent and the rare rookie worth an early pick — highest-paid rookie RB for a reason; will be featured. Late-1st.

elite · high conviction · 2026-06-05

The offense he plays in, 2026

Las Vegas Raiders returns 2 of 6 continuity slots, replacing qb1, wr1, hc, oc. Kirk Cousins at quarterback, Klint Kubiak as head coach, Andrew Janocko calling it. The offense projects to 32.2 pass attempts a game at low confidence and 24.8 rushes.

In: Kirk Cousins (qb), Fernando Mendoza (qb2), Jalen Nailor (wr1), Malik Benson (wr5), Dareke Young (wr6), Philip Dorsett II (wr7), Mike Washington Jr (rb2), Chris Collier (rb4). Out: Geno Smith (qb), Jach Bech (wr2), Tyler Lockett (wr3), Raheem Mostert (rb2), Zamir White (rb3).

The projected carry split across the offense:

Ashton Jeanty 66.7%
Mike Washington Jr24%
Dylan Laube6%
Chris Collier3.3%

Our written view on this offense in 2026

What the offense looks like: If this offense can click, the top players in this offense will all have their values increase significantly. There is talent here: Bowers, Jeanty, Mendoza. But this WR corp is lacking, however Tucker, Nailor, Bech, and even Thornton Jr have a huge opportunity to step up.

Key additions: Drafted Fernando Mendoza 1 overall. Kirk Cousins signed in free agency on vet minimum deal. C Tyler Linderbaum landed HUGE deal coming over from Baltimore (top center in NFL). WR Jalen Nailor landed a 3 year deal & COULD be raiders WR1 IF no other veterans are brought in.

Key departures: QB Geno Smith was traded to the Jets.

Notes: Mendoza 1.01 franchise QB of the future. Raiders also signed Kirk Cousins & he is assumed week 1 starter. Mendoza may not play early half of season unless beats Cousins out in camp. Raiders spent big in free agency and O line should be better but still bad. Buy Bowers long-term. Monitor Mendoza development. Raiders will probably sign a veteran WR who could operate as WR1, either Jauan Jennings or Diggs or Tyreek Hill or Keenan Allen potentially. Tyreek Hill also an option. Mike Washington Jr will back up Ashton Jeanty. New HC Klint Kubiak former Seahawks OC should also boost offense creativity.

How the volume number was reached: New QB Kirk Cousins, avg 29.6 att/g over 2025,2024; Regressed 65% toward league mean 33.5, floored at 30 → 32.1 att/g; New OC Andrew Janocko — pass rate and tempo may shift; New HC Klint Kubiak.

How the carry projection was built

Projected carry share66.7%
Projected carries per game13.6
Projected carries, full season231
Last season, carries per game15.7

That is a reduction of 2.1 carries a game against last season, inside a team projection of 24.8 rushing attempts a game.

Basis: prior usage blend. Carry share is the strongest forward predictor we have measured at the position, so this number carries more weight than any efficiency figure on this page.

Offensive environment: LV rates 19.6 against a league average of 23, 3.4 below it on opponent-adjusted least squares (multi-capture merge).

2026 schedule

Opponent-adjusted run defense faced, against 2025 ratings. Positive is an easier slate.

Full season-3.8 · harder
Weeks 1–6-4.4 · harder
Weeks 12–17-4.4 · harder
Fantasy playoffs (15–17)-2 · harder

Read this narrowly. Our own testing found that season-long strength of schedule does not survive as a draft input — defensive quality is among the least stable team properties year to year, and a preseason slate is built on last year's identities. The playoff-weeks column is the only one we would let break a tie, and even then it is a tiebreaker rather than a reason. The finding.

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Dynasty context not redraft

Everything in this section is about his dynasty trade value — what he is worth as a long-term asset in the trade market. It is not a forecast of his 2026 fantasy scoring. A player can be a fine redraft pick while his dynasty value falls, and the reverse. The redraft read is above; this is a different question with a different answer.

Where he sits in the dynasty value cycle

His dynasty value has moved +2.7% over the last twelve months. The market cycle classifies him as stable.

For context on how long this lasts at the position: the average career at his position produces 1.7 elite seasons and 2.4 startable seasons.

The five most similar seasons, and what their dynasty value did next

Matched on production profile — blended production + pedigree. The last column is how that player’s dynasty value moved the following year — a market outcome, not a scoring one.

PlayerSeasonTheir PPGSimilarityNext year
Najee Harris202117.766%-14.8%
Breece Hall202317.155%+2.9%
Bijan Robinson202420.154%+35.6%
David Montgomery202017.749%+15.1%
Rachaad White202315.847%-22.6%

Of the 5 with a following season on record, 3 gained value, 2 lost it and 0 held roughly flat.

Four years of dynasty value

02,0004,0006,0008,0002026
Monthly superflex value, 2025-05 to 2026-07. Up 3% across the series, peaking at 7,710.

The player

Draft capital and athletic profile

Drafted2025, round 1, pick 6 by LVR
CollegeBoise St.
Age at draft21
Height5′9″
Weight211 lb

The record, season by season

2025 · LV · 17 games

His best game was Week 4 against CHI — 33.5 PPR on 23 touches and a 10% target share, in a game that finished 24-25. His worst was Week 7 against KC at 4.4, on 7 touches, final score 0-31. Across 17 games he cleared 20 points 3 times and came in under 8 points 4 times. In the 7 games decided by 8 points or fewer he averaged 18.7; in the 10 decided by more, 11.4. He scored more when the game was live.

Earned against scored

His usage that season was worth 16.7 points per game. He scored 14.42, 13.5% below it. The engine classified the season as unlucky. On receiving touchdowns specifically he finished 4 against 2.13 expected, a gap of 1.9.

WkOppScorePPRRecTgtYdsCarRushTDTgt%Snap%
1NE20-1312222193816.1%86%
2LAC9-207.4341114309.3%56%
3WAS24-416.3000176300%61%
4CHI24-2533.5221721138310%85%
5IND6-4015.957421467019.4%54%
6TEN20-1016.624112375117.4%79%
7KC0-314.4111362105.9%63%
9JAX29-3019.955471342113.2%91%
10DEN7-1015.33531960120%87%
11DAL16-339.4682767020.5%73%
12CLE10-2424.888581750119%81%
13LAC14-3112.168301531036.4%96%
14DEN17-245.82481030014.3%70%
15PHI0-318.2467935024%71%
16HOU21-2331.812602412829.1%93%
17NYG10-349.32213166007.1%81%
18KC14-1212.43572687019.2%97%

Production

Receptions55
Targets73
Receiving yards346
Carries266
Rushing yards975
Touchdowns10
Points per game14.42
Yards per target4.74
Catch rate75.34%
Yards per carry3.67

Role

Snap share77.88%
Target share14.76%
Air-yards share-5.79%
WOPR0.181
RACR-0.74

Efficiency

Average depth of target-1.5
Yards after catch per reception8.2
Yards before catch per reception-1.9
Total YAC452
Broken tackles8
Drop rate0.1%
Passer rating when targeted96
Rushing yards over expected0
Receiving EPA per game-0.7
Rushing EPA per game-3.83

Scoring position

Red-zone targets10
Red-zone target share16.7%
End-zone target share0%
Red-zone carry share73.9%
Goal-line carry share83.3%
Expected receiving TDs2.13
Actual receiving TDs4
Receiving TD luck1.87
Expected rushing TDs5.57

Where that ranked

Against everyone in the 100+ carries pool that season:

Points per game16 of 49
Yards per target43 of 49
Target share6 of 49
Air-yards share49 of 49

Who else ate

The offense threw it 515 times. He took 14.81% of the targets. 2 team-mates cleared the competing-target threshold.

Tre Tucker18.66%
Brock Bowers17.44%
Ashton Jeanty 14.81%
Michael Mayer10.14%
Jakobi Meyers9.94%
Tyler Lockett6.9%

By quarterback

He caught passes from 3 quarterbacks that season, and the splits are not close.

QBGamesTargetsPPGY/TTgt%
Geno Smith156214.975.3513.85%
Kenny Pickett168.21.1724%
Aidan O'Connell1512.41.419.2%

Blowouts against close games

7 of his 17 games were blowouts, 26.8% of his snaps coming in them. He averaged 9.37 in those and 18.67 in close games — his scoring did not depend on garbage time.

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