Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty’s historic 2024 season by the numbers

Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty is having a season for the ages.

Rushing for a jaw-dropping 2,497 yards and 29 touchdowns, Jeanty helped lead the Broncos to a 12-1 record, a Mountain West title and a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff; they’ll face the winner of No. 11 SMU and No. 6 Penn State in the quarterfinal round. 

Jeanty won the Doak Walker Award, which is given to the “most outstanding running back” in the nation, and is a finalist for the 2024 Heisman Trophy Award.

In any other season, Jeanty could also claim Heisman honors, but Colorado Buffaloes two-way star Travis Hunter (92 receptions for 1,152 yards and 14 touchdowns as a wide receiver and four interceptions as a cornerback) is the consensus favorite to win the award. Nonetheless, Jeanty is having one of the best seasons a running back has had in collegiate history.

Here’s Jeanty’s historic 2024 campaign by the numbers:

0: Jeanty has six games with 200 rushing yards and one rushing score. How many such games do all the other CFP teams combine for this season? Zero, which is also the number of games Jeanty has failed to rush for 100 yards this season.

115: Jeanty isn’t just the leading rusher in the nation. He has more rushing yards than 115 of 134 FBS teams.

837: The Boise State star has 837 more rushing yards than the No. 2 rusher in the nation, North Carolina’s Omarion Hampton, who has rushed for 1,660 yards and 15 touchdowns on 5.9 yards per carry. 

7: Jeanty has rushed for more yards than seven of the 12 teams in the CFP: Oregon, Georgia, Texas, Ohio State, Indiana, SMU and Clemson.

3: Jeanty has three games with 200-plus rushing yards and three-plus rushing touchdowns. No power conference player has more than one such game.

267: Earlier this year, Jeanty had 20 carries for 267 yards (13.4 yards per carry) and six touchdowns against Georgia Southern. Since 2000, he’s only the second player to total 250-plus rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns in 20 or fewer carries. Levron Williams was the other player, doing so in 2001 at Indiana. Jeanty is also the first player to post the aforementioned stat line outside a power conference.

2,400: He’s the third player since 2000 to have a season with 2,400 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns. Jeanty also has a chance to become the first player since 2000 to reach 2,600 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns — pending his performance in the CFP (he’s currently at 2,497 rushing yards).

2: Jeanty became the second player in league history to sweep Offensive Player of the Year and Mountain West Championship Offensive MVP honors, joining Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr (2013).

44: Jeanty broke the 44-year record for most career rushing yards in Boise State history (2022-24), passing Cedric Miller’s 4,475 rushing yards (1977-80).

77: Jeanty has accounted for 77% of Boise State’s rushing yards this season (2,497 of 3,257).

8: He’s just the fourth player since 2000 to have eight games with 200-plus rushing yards.

29: Jeanty’s 29 rushing touchdowns are one more than Jay Ajayi for the most in a single season in Boise State history.

150: Since 2000, Jeanty is the fourth player to have seven or more games with 150 rushing yards and three-plus rushing touchdowns.

21: His 21 career games with 100 rushing yards are the most in Boise State history.

70: Jeanty has five 70-plus-yard rushing touchdowns this season, which ties LaDainian Tomlinson (TCU, 1999) for the most in a single season in FBS history.

7.3: Jeanty is averaging 7.3 yards per carry, a 1.2-yard jump from 2023, which was a 0.8-yard jump from 2022.

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