Dylan Raiola on Patrick Mahomes' reaction to his camp outfit: 'It's pretty cool'

Dylan Raiola caught wind of Patrick Mahomes’ reaction to his viral photo when he arrived at Nebraska’s fall camp.

It was basically Mahomes’ lookalike. Now, can Raiola play like Mahomes for Nebraska? If he does, the Huskers will be in good shape with the five-star freshman quarterback.

Raiola thought it was pretty cool the top QB in the game noticed him, but he quickly switched focus.

“It was funny. I’m not on social media,” Raiola said. “So I mean, it was my teammates showing me and we were at the training table and it popped up on ESPN, but it’s pretty cool too to be preceded by a guy like Mahomes. I mean, probably gonna go down as one of the greats so it’s cool but you know honestly our focus right now is to work on our team and keep getting better and camp. I don’t want to get distracted from what we’re here to do.”

It certainly sounds like Raiola is Mahomes-like in his leadership. Flipping from Ohio State and eventually Georgia, Raiola was the biggest recruiting win to date for head coach Matt Rhule.

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.

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.”