How bad was the Raiders offensive line in 2025?
As bad any in the league and one of the worst ever according to someone within the Raiders’ building.
Andy for anyone needing evidence, a detailed statistic from Ashton Jeanty’s rookie season highlights how grossly the odds were against him in 2025.
ESPN’s Ben Solak believes Jeanty is one of the NFL’s top breakout candidates in 2026, and he explained why an improved offensive line under head coach Klint Kubiak should unlock Jeanty’s potential.
“Predicting a Jeanty breakout is quite the layup,” Solak wrote this week. “He might not immediately achieve the lofty expectations that come with being the No. 6 pick, but we can say with some confidence that his opportunity for production is about to become much easier,” ESPN’s Ben Solak wrote this week.
“Jeanty averaged 1.26 yards before contact per rush behind the Raiders’ line last season, and of 737 running back seasons since 2010, that number was 734th. Forget the new scheme or the Tyler Linderbaum signing — pure regression to the mean suggests Jeanty will have an easier go in 2026,” Solak continued.
“Jeanty had 2.4 yards after contact per rush last season, eighth among all backs. He was a great tackle-breaker at Boise State, and he looks like he might be one in the pros, too. With a more balanced offensive approach, he should see easier boxes as well. A good season is ahead.”
Raiders made big mistakes with ’25 coaching hires
There has been a lot of blame passed around after last year’s failures, but as much as anything, it seems the coaching alignment played a big part in why the Raiders underperformed in 2025.
The California Post’s Vinny Bonsignore talked specifically about last year’s offense on the team’s flagship radio station.
“You contrast [this year’s staff] to last year… when it’s Pete Carroll and he hires Chip Kelly, who he had never had any working relationship with before. They had coached against each other. That was the extent of their relationship. And then, from Chip’s perspective, he’s the offensive coordinator. Yet, the offensive line coach is Brennan Carroll, Pete Carroll’s son, who had no working relationship with Chip Kelly,” Bonsignore said on Raider Nation Radio’s Morning Tailgate.
“I don’t think we’re speaking out of school to suggest that [offensive line coach Brennan Carroll] wasn’t on the same page at all with the offensive coordinator. And we saw the teaching and the coaching and the council that the offensive line coach provided to the offensive line and it just wasn’t working. You could see on the field that whatever he was trying to teach, he just wasn’t teaching it well enough,” Bonsignore continued.
“And I would imagine that some of that had to do with the fact that this [offense] was new to him too. And so trying to force an offensive coordinator and a head coach, and then an offensive line coach on an offensive coordinator, probably is not going to work.”
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