Courtesy of Boise State
BOISE, Idaho – Ashton Jeanty collected another national award, winning the 2024 Bobby Bowden Trophy. The trophy is given to an FBS player that has exemplary character and epitomizes what it means to be a student-athlete.
Jeanty tallied 2,601 rushing yards, the second-highest single-season total in FBS history. He ran for 29 touchdowns, second-most in the country, and compiled 1,970 yards after contact, a College Football Playoff-era record. He also set the CFP-era record for missed tackles forced (164). The junior tied TCU’s LaDanian Tomlinson (1999) for the most 70-yard touchdown runs in a season, scoring five.
Behind Jeanty, Boise State finished 12-2 and earned the No. 3 seed in the CFP. The Broncos won their second-straight MW title and appeared in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Jeanty declared for the 2025 NFL Draft, concluding his career as the program’s all-time leader in rushing yards (4,769), yards per carry (6.4), yards per game (119.2), 200-yard rushing games (8) and 100-yard rushing games (22).
The team captain was a unanimous All-American and repeated as Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year. He won the Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award while finishing second in Heisman Trophy voting. He created the Ashton Jeanty Endowed Scholarship for Football, which has exceeded its goal of raising $200,000. Jeanty will be presented the trophy on Feb. 12, at an event hosted by Liberty University.
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