Exploring Dylan Lawby's Journey: Raiders to Super Bowl

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00:00Live from Radio Row Sports Grid Network and how about this, we're gonna talk

00:04Super Bowl, it's the Eagles, it's the Kansas City Chiefs, but more importantly

00:07Donny Rightside, Dylan Lawby, Raiders, Raiders. Raiders, come on. We got a lot to talk

00:14about here and have some fun with now. Stature-wise I look at you and I say why

00:17couldn't I have been you? I went to high school, I was a wide receiver, I scored

00:22five touchdowns. Jersey too? Jersey. I scored five touchdowns my senior year. So just to break my

00:27heart let me ask you, how many touchdowns your senior year? You just

00:30answered that question, so now I know. Bring it back. I had 47. 47 and I also read a

00:36hundred plus in your high school career. Yeah, I think I had like 120. Now wide receiver

00:42combination, running back, did you play defense? How did high school explain it to me?

00:46I played everything. Yeah. So returner, punt returner, running back, receiver,

00:50safety, backer, I played everything. Now brothers, sisters, athletic family, how was it?

00:57So everyone thinks I get my genes from my dad, but it was my mom. My mom

01:02played basketball. She was a redhead, small girl, dog. Wow. Point guard.

01:09Really? She played at a small college in Manhattan, which was Manhattan

01:15College. My dad played hockey growing up, he never went to college, but

01:20yeah dude, my two brothers, I have a sister. Older or younger brother? All athletes.

01:26I have one older, one younger, and one older sister. Got you. Everyone's an athlete.

01:30That's the way to do it. You get the competition in the house as you get there.

01:33Now, high school career was phenomenal. Obviously you're getting recruited. The

01:37path that you chose to college, why? Did you have bigger offers or did you say to

01:41yourself, this is the place I want to be at? I had one offer and that was

01:45University of New Hampshire. To be honest, as soon as I got to

01:52that campus, I knew that was the right school. Yeah. 100%. Just from the

01:56grades, I mean listen, we now, Chip Kelly went there. Absolutely. Eddie played there.

02:01Eddie is now my new new OC. Look at that. I mean, coming right back there, you got the

02:05elements right there in the fold. Now, your college, let's start here, because you

02:09played during the COVID era. Yeah. I can't imagine, because like

02:14thinking back, if I was in high school, I played division three, wide receiver,

02:16might as well win COVID every day. You know what I mean? But being isolated like

02:21that, a year of your life, how did that work for you? It was tough. Yeah. We

02:26actually had a lot of adversity too. Yeah. Coming off my true freshman year, we were

02:3315 years consecutively in the FCS playoffs. Wow. We've always won. Yeah. I

02:39got there my true freshman year, we went four and seven. Wow. So, it was like, it

02:43was a shock. Yeah. Final year, COVID hit. Yeah. My head coach, who's great now,

02:50had cancer. So, he had to step away. Yeah. So, it was just chaos there. But I mean,

02:54listen, we fought through everything. It's that team, and we learned so much

02:59about each other. Yeah. After COVID, my coach came back. He then eventually

03:05retired, but then that following year, it was my junior year, we had our first

03:10winning season in three years. Yeah. And we won our conference championship, had a

03:17winning season, and that kind of started our reign back. Yeah. It's a great FCS program.

03:23It's great stuff, because I love to hear that stuff too, because when you're

03:26playing through adversity, it really makes the character. Which then, most

03:29people in our lifetime don't get to play in the NFL. Yeah. When you graduate

03:33college, and you try to take that step to the NFL, I love to ask players this, but

03:37even the great ones right down to, I had to make it on my own there. How did you

03:41handle that transition? 100%. 100%. Especially coming from a small

03:45school. Yeah. It's not that big name player that came from that school. Sure. It was a gritty

03:50process, man, and I kind of got my name in there my junior year when we made the

03:56playoffs again. I had a great year. My senior year was really that Central

04:01Michigan game. It was our big FCS game, and I had probably my best game

04:05of my career, and I kind of put my name out there. I got invited to the Senior

04:09Bowl Combined, and I kind of been saying I had to go three for three. It

04:14was the Senior Bowl Combined and Pro Day, and I checked off every

04:20single one. That's so cool. That was kind of the way I kind of made it through

04:24everything, but the whole time, I had that chip on the shoulder. I was the

04:26only small school guy, and I was just ready to go, man. Where are you

04:31from? You tell us. Now, let's get to your Raiders career, because I love,

04:35again, reading your story here is fantastic, because it's not coming in

04:39from a first-round draft pick. I'm getting 20 carries. Yep. You're basically

04:42trying to bust your butt to get on special teams, but you get in the game,

04:45and you fumble the football. Correct me if I'm wrong, the next couple games being

04:49inactive. Yes, sir. You're on that stage. That happens. How do you overcome that?

04:53Listen, it was a crazy year. Yeah. It was so much ups and downs, and my rookie year,

04:58man, coming as a six-round pick, man, I had a great camp. I thought I was gonna get a

05:03couple more carries early on in the season. I was still a little bit

05:07inactive. I got my shot against the Steelers, and TJ Watt made a hell of a

05:13play, hell of a play, but you know what? And then after that, I was inactive for a

05:18couple more games, and at that time, I was like, am I gonna still be on this team or

05:22not? Yep. And every day, man, I had that chip on my shoulder once again, and had

05:28to prove to everybody on the team that I belong here, and I made my way back. I got

05:34my chance on special teams, and I worked my butt off the whole time. I made a

05:38bunch of plays there, finished off the year great, and now I'm here.

05:43So again, the 59-yard kicker had to feel so good, and you see the

05:47excitement that drew you like, I'm here, and I want to stay here in the NFL. So it

05:51was cool because that was kind of my first game back, my first true test as a

05:57returner, and it was actually my first return, too. My whole family was

06:03there, and they said after that return, they never heard the crowd erupt so loud,

06:09because it was still like, I think it was like a tie game. Yep. That

06:12shifted the whole momentum. We still lost the game, but it was still such an

06:16electric play. It led to a touchdown, and that kind of sparked me. It gave me so

06:21much more confidence. But I want to talk big game in a second, but am I hearing

06:25through the grapevine you're the best dancer on the Raiders? Is that what I'm

06:28hearing? 100%. I mean, I saw the videos. You're beating all the pros out there. So listen, as a

06:35rookie, I had to sing. Yeah. I had to do an interpretation of Max

06:39Crosby. If you know Max, he's a big dude. Yes, he is. He's pretty scary, but I don't

06:44care. Yep. Third thing was, during the season, every Friday, the rookies have to

06:49dance. Yes. So of course, I was the first one, and I balled out. Yep. I balled out.

06:54Everyone loved it. And the tapes are there. Hundreds of thousands of views. Which, I

06:58didn't know that they were taping it until after I got a text from my friends.

07:02They're like, Dylan, what are you doing? Yep. I'm like, listen, that's me. At the end of

07:06the year, they're like, hey listen, we're 4-11 at that point. Yeah. Okay, can you

07:11come back and finish it off? I was like, alright. So last game, I had to do the

07:17exact same thing and dance again, and once again, I blew it away. Yep. That's

07:21fantastic. Look, that's the way you do it. You want to get in great shape in the team, you

07:24want to work hard, but you want to have some fun. Promoting anything out here,

07:27anything that we can look forward to, where can we catch you on social media?

07:29Yeah, man. My social media handle for Instagram is Dylan Laube, just no spaces,

07:36and my ex is Dylan underscore Laube again. But no, man, I'm excited for

07:41year two. I'm tweeting you all next year. Please. Please, man, listen. Fantasy. Pick me up.

07:46Whoa. I'm telling you. Hey, a lot of people picked me up this year. I'm telling you, man,

07:51year two. We're in. It's a brand new year for me. We're in. You ever come to the

07:54Philadelphia market, I'm in the stands. We're cheering. We're going nuts. Oh, really? You're a Philly guy.

07:57I'm an Eagles fan, which, again, I need your Super Bowl pick, then. I need it, and I

08:00needed to be Eagles. I've never been a Philly guy. Yes. But. Who did you grow up

08:05rooting for on Long Island? Jets? Giants? Who was it? It was funny. It was the Steelers. Oh, wow.

08:09TJ won the Steelers. Yeah. No good now. Done. No good now. It was actually cool.

08:13Mike Tolman actually recently moved to around my area. Yeah. Great guy. I've

08:18talked to him a bunch. Great coach. Inspirational guy. But he

08:23hate the Chiefs. I hate the Chiefs. Love to hear it. Everything that I own. Love to hear it. I'm a

08:29Saquon guy. Yep. I think he's the best back in this decade. Yeah. Unbelievable.

08:35Yep. He's a humble guy. I think it's Philly all the way. Look at that.

08:41Philly all the way. Who needs Christian McCaffrey these day and age when you got Dylan

08:44Lawby right here of the Raiders. Yes, sir. Thanks so much for stopping by. Thank you. Really

08:47appreciate it, man. Thank you, man. Love it.

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