Can Jeanty be an 'elite' fantasy option in 2026?
Patrick Daugherty and Denny Carter discuss what Ashton Jeanty's reported conditioning means for his current ADP, going as the RB8 in fantasy drafts.
Video Transcript
Although Ashton Genti avoided true fantasy football disaster as a rookie, Denny Carter, thanks in part to 10 total touchdowns and 55 receptions, not a whole lot went right.
That apparently included on the conditioning front, Genti, it seems, was just playing bigger than he wanted to be playing, or maybe bigger than he, you should play in the NFL, and he just didn't realize it.
Now, Albert Breer reported he's down to 207 pounds this summer after changing his diet.
Breer reported he is showing explosion and violence running without the pads on.
Genti got the memo, it seems like, after his rookie year.
You have to do things differently in the NFL than you did in college, maybe especially at Boise State.
Are you buying Genti at his really high ADP, currently in the RB8 range?
Yeah, there's not roo- much room to go there for Genti.
You know, back in the old days, he probably would, would've been going as, like, RB15 right now, and I would've been buying.
But I don't know.
RB8 is a little pricey.
I will say, you know, the Kubiak system, is predicated on zone rushes, and last year, Ashton Genti was very efficient on zone rushes compared to his, like, man gap scheme rushes.
So that's good.
You know, he was pretty good, top 20 in, tackles broken per rush.
We love that metric.
And, so that, that'd probably get better, you know, now that he's lighter, maybe a little more agile.
It can't be bad, is what I'll say.
And just the general environment, for the Raiders has improved so much.
I think Genti can pretty easily be a top 10 guy.
I don't know about an elite running back, though.
Like you said, top eight's gonna be hard to live up to, but a massively improved quarterback situation, massively improved play calling situation, and he's just in better shape.
Most arrows pointing upward for Ashton Genti in 2026.
