Dylan Raiola is not related to Patrick Mahomes but you would never know based on his outfit for the first day of fall camp at Nebraska. In fact, you might even think that they are twins, or quite literally the same person.
The five-star freshman even confused Tyreek Hill with his new look!
Raiola, the top-ranked prospect in the college football recruiting Class of 2024, got to campus for the first time in January. He arrived to Lincoln in time to compete with Heinrich Haarberg for the starting job during spring ball and will continue to do so through fall camp.
Players arrived back to campus on Tuesday before the preseason officially got underway on Wednesday.
One particular entrance made quite the splash. Raiola looked identical to Mahomes. If you didn’t know that it was the 19-year-old freshman from Arizona, you would think that it was the 28-year-old three-time Super Bowl champion.
Raiola has always had a little bit of a Mahomes look about him.
They have similar hair and he even wears the NFL signal-caller’s signature headband and the No. 15.
But with all of that being said, you can normally discern the difference between Dylan Raiola and Patrick Mahomes. It really shouldn’t take much brain power. Just not on Tuesday.
The former pulled up to fall camp as if he was actually the latter. Raiola’s hair, sunglasses and goatee made him nearly unrecognizable. The Adidas shirt and dual necklaces really put it over the top.
Hill played six seasons with Mahomes in Kansas City. Even he wasn’t so sure that Raiola wasn’t actually his former quarterback in disguise.
It doesn’t get much closer than that right there. Raiola’s look as he pulled up to fall camp was astonishingly close to Mahomes’ look when he arrived to training camp earlier this month.
That’s uncanny right there!