I think that might be possible.
I haven't watched Jeanty play before, so I looked up his highlights.
He appears to be an exceptional running back talent - who doesn't in a highlight tape, I guess, to be fair. Amazing vision, power, and what really stood out to me is his contact balance. He seems almost impossible to bring down if you hit him while running or making a move. He always finds a way to keep moving forward. His balance is unreal. That part reminds me of Kamara.
But what really caught me off guard, as someone that had never watched him play before, given how high some are projecting him to be drafted, is that he is pretty small... and seemingly without elite speed despite that smaller size. At least on film, he didn't look overly fast to me. And these are his highlights. He looks faster than KW, but I didn't really see him shifting into a gear seemingly above every opposing tackler on the field, or pulling away from opposing defenders in chase. At the college level, and particularly not coming from an elite college program where some opponents will be even more meh, I'd expect to see that from a RB projected to be a top 10 NFL draft pick. If he cannot do it in college at a tier 2 program, what will happen in the NFL, when the opposition gets markedly faster and more athletic?
He looks like he will be a real good player, and I think would be an immediate step up over KW. But if we are looking to remedy our RB room being small yet still having no home run speed, I am not sure Jeanty is the answer. Apparently Jeanty runs 4.4 at 5'9". Kyren is also 5'9" and ran 4.5 at Notre Dame (but a slower 4.6 at the NFL combine).
Gurley, Zeke Elliott, McCaffrey, Fournette, Barkley, Bijan Robinson, Gibbs.... you don't really see RBs drafted in the top 10 that are under 5'10 let alone without game breaking speed and agility. The mock drafts that see Jeanty falling into the 20s I think might be more on point. Unless the RB position is coming back into favor and he gets over-drafted after the success Henry, Barkley, and Jacobs saw after switching teams... if that happens I would stay away. Jeanty appears to be a smaller, compact, power back that will best deployed as a clear 1A in a running back by committee group IMO, rather than an elite bell-cow you never take off the field. For a top 10 pick value it's the latter I think you need to be getting.
