Ashton Jeanty Fantasy Football 2026 Outlook: Bust of the Year RB

By Muntradamus

BEAST DOME NATION.

Last season I wrote an article calling Ashton Jeanty the BUST of the Year. Nobody agreed with me, some haters even wanted to share their opinion.

At this point, it is boring to always be this right. Do not get me wrong I am grateful, but what, once again I make an amazing call, once again I get no real credit besides me showcasing my correct pick and then the internet moves on and nobody acknowledges. Ashton Jeanty was a dumpster fire last year.

ASHTON JEANTY 2025

Last season Jeanty was a 1st/2nd Round Pick. Looking at his game log quick and raw, he looks like a high-end RB3 at best. When you focus harder on his numbers you will see that Fantasy Owners really got fucked, quick and raw. Take away two great games Jeanty had last year, against the Bears & Texans, he loses 50% of his TDs and 25% of his yards. That means for 15/17 games, Jeanty was not very good at all.

This season the Raiders are trying to make things easier for their rookie. They added a Pro Bowl quality center from the Ravens in Linderbaum, they added a better QB than Geno Smith in Kirk Cousins, and they got a head coach who was a great offensive coordinator for the Seahawks last year in Kubiak. Outside of those three moves, the Raiders are still the Raiders. No Defense, no WR with game breaking talent, and still a last place quality team. While you may be fast to say Brock Bowers is great, sure he is good, but as far as WR that changes the game and changes a defense, the Raiders do not have that.

The real reason why Ashton Jeanty is not good, is the same reason in the video above, the same reason I wrote about last year when saying Jeanty is a BUST. He is not playing against Chico State College Football players anymore. He is playing grown men. Jeanty showed us last year, he is not a bruiser. He is too small. He is a little shifty, a little powerful, a little fast. Mix it all together and you get, a baby version of Duce Staley. I feel like I am doing Duce wrong with that comparison.

Despite all this, despite all the pain these Sheep Experts caused their followers last season as they advised their clients to select Jeanty in Round 1/2 a season ago, they are telling them to give Ashton Jeanty one more shot. Not as a 4th Round Pick, not as a 3rd Round Pick, but again as a 2nd/1st Round Pick as his current consensus ranking is the #7 RB overall.

At this point, I could rant on for hours, talk about how all these bozos are total frauds and it is so annoying to see anyone follow them. But at this point, what good does it do. Those who found BEAST DOME stay at BEAST DOME, and those who do not find BEAST DOME end up running off a cliff at full speed with their Fantasy Football team as soon as the season starts. Last year if you drafted Jeanty, you likely started 1-2 at best, maybe picked up a win in Week 4 because of Jeanty, but then stayed out of the Playoff Race the rest of the season.