@thesportsontap: Dylan Laube returns kickoffs for the Las Vegas Raiders, and today he took one 95 yards against the New York Jets. That is the first kickoff anyone has returned for a touchdown in the NFL all season. Nobody in the league had done it until today. It tied that game at 13. Dylan Laube went to Westhampton Beach High School in New York. He scored 101 touchdowns there. He ran for 6,495 yards and took 5 kickoffs back for scores. As a senior he scored 47 touchdowns, which is a Long Island record, and he led that school to its first class title in 28 years. Then came recruiting. He got one scholarship offer. It came from the University of New Hampshire, which plays in the FCS, a division below the college football that is on television every Saturday. He took it, and he redshirted his first year. Then he led the entire FCS in all purpose yards per game, and the next season he went out and did it again. The Raiders took him in the sixth round in 2024, 208th overall. Be straight about the job he has. A kick returner gets a handful of chances a season to change a football game, and the large majority of them end around the 25 yard line with nobody saying a word about it. The one today went 95. He started playing at five years old, in a pee wee league in Eastport South Manor where his older brother Devin played and where his father Kyle coached. His younger brother Deegan plays at Holy Cross now. His cousin Kym said this about him the week he got drafted. "When Dylan told you in fourth grade that he was going to be in the NFL, you never once doubted it." He is 26 years old. He has 12 carries in his NFL career. Today he caught a kickoff 5 yards deep in his own end and took it the length of the field, and nobody else in professional football has managed that once this year. #nfl #nflnews #nflfootball #raiders #lvraiders

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