Dylan Raiola arrives to Nebraska camp looking like Patrick Mahomes
If the hype around Dylan Raiola wasn’t real yet, just wait til you see how much he looks like Patrick Mahomes.
Okay, not as a quarterback, at least yet. But Raiola pulled up to Nebraska’s fall camp in Lincoln looking eerily similar to the three-time Super Bowl champion.
From the hair, to the glasses and even the facial hair, it looks like a mini-Mahomes out there. ESPN’s Adam Schefter shared it below.
Now if Raiola passes for 5,000 yards and around 40 touchdowns or so, we’ll now there might be magic in this type of appearance. Heck, what if Raiola does that as a freshman and leads Nebraska to the College Football Playoff?
Tyreek Hill was even beside himself.
There’s no way that happens, right? Anyway, let’s just stick to the current reality.
Raiola is a hyped prospect coming in, having flipped from Georgia to Nebraska, giving head coach Matt Rhule his biggest recruiting win, arguably, ever.
As a member of the Class of 2024, Raiola was a five-star recruit out of Buford (Ga.) High, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He was the No. 2 overall prospect in the state, the No. 3 quarterback in the class and the No. 21 overall prospect in the class.
Dylan Raiola the next great college QB?
How good is he already? Rhule basically cried tears of happiness.
The freshman took the field and saw the defense line up at practice. Right away, he saw it was a blitz and called it out to his teammates – and it left Rhule speechless.
“We get out to the first practice and he comes out, and we’re sliding to the field and there’s a will free safety blitz and he’s like, ‘Hey, flipper flipper.’ … I had a tear running down my eye,” Rhule said on SiriusXM College during Big Ten Media Days.
“The next day, the other freshman quarterback who’s elitely talented, Danny Kaelin, and brilliant. He comes out and he does it. Then, all of a sudden, it starts taking off.”
During the offseason, Rhule said the competition between Dylan Raiola, Daniel Kaelin and Heinrich Haarberg would go through training camp. He expressed a similar sentiment during a breakout session with reporters in Indianapolis, saying Nebraska will know who the starter will be “when we know.”