Boise State Football: Ashton Jeanty Is MWwire’s 2023 Offensive Player Of The Year
The Broncos running back did some heavy lifting this year to become a near-unanimous pick as Mountain West football’s top offensive weapon.
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One of the nation’s most super sophomores.
Mountain West Wire’s 2023 postseason honors:
All-Conference Teams | Offensive Player of the Year | Defensive Player of the Year | Special Teams Player of the Year | Freshman of the Year | Newcomer of the Year | Coach of the Year | Coordinator of the Year
The Mountain West has typically featured a number of talented running backs in recent years, but few put on the kind of show that the Boise State Broncos really needed from Ashton Jeanty in 2023. That’s why he was our staff’s pick as the conference’s best offensive performer.
Even though he’s still only a sophomore, the Broncos weren’t shy about getting the ball to Jeanty early and often this season. Even if defenders knew he was coming, though, he was still difficult to stop: According to Pro Football Focus, he finished the regular season with 63 missed tackles, the most in the Mountain West, and ranked second among all FBS players in averaging 164.6 all-purpose yards per game. If that wasn’t enough, he also posted 18 touchdowns.
Even in a program that’s developed so many greats over the last two decades, few have reached the pinnacle that Jeanty did this fall. Just imagine what he could do next.
Taylen Green picks up the blitz and hits a wide-open Ashton Jeanty.
38-yard touchdown. Great drive from the Broncos. Boise State takes its first lead.
7-3 Broncos // 4:20 Q1 pic.twitter.com/dVe1DHFj0W
— Jordan Kaye (@jordankaye_23) September 9, 2023
Also received votes: Chevan Cordeiro, QB, San Jose State; Jacory Croskey-Merritt, RB, New Mexico; Dallin Holker, TE, Colorado State; Tory Horton, WR, Colorado State; Steven McBride, WR, Hawaii; Kairee Robinson, RB, San Jose State; Brayden Schager, QB, Hawaii; Ricky White, WR, UNLV
