What earns a 21-year-old rookie, fresh off the plane from Boise State, such a colossal comparison before his first NFL snap? Look at the tape – and the numbers. Ashton Jeanty isn’t just joining the Raiders ; he’s arriving as the RB6 in early PPR fantasy drafts, the undisputed top rookie RB target. And he has garnered Marshawn Lynch’s attention. When Lynch, known for his own “beast quake” run etched in NFL lore, leans into the mic, his voice dripping with a mix of awe and streetwise recognition, the football world leans in too. His subject? Las Vegas Raiders rookie phenom, Ashton Jeanty.
“If [Ashton] continue on the path that he been on, he going to be something special,” Lynch declared on the Rich and Eisen Show on Aug 15 , his words, indeed, carrying the weight of a man