{"id":158729,"date":"2025-09-21T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158729\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:14:09","slug":"nfl-insider-torches-nebraskas-dylan-raiola-over-paradox-in-carbon-copying-chiefs-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158729\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL insider torches Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola over paradox in carbon-copying Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL insider torches Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola over paradox in carbon-copying Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nebraska Cornhuskers faced off against the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday, and the game didn\u2019t disappoint. The only downside was that the Cornhuskers came away with a loss\u2014clearly disappointing for fans. However, after the game, quarterback and team leader Dylan Raiola made it clear this wasn\u2019t going to be rock bottom<\/a>\u2014and he put the rest of the NCAA on notice.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of people think this might break us. I\u2019m just telling you right now, we\u2019re going to come together and do something scary,\u201d Raiola told the media.<\/p>\n

Raiola is widely recognized for his striking resemblance to Patrick Mahomes\u2014not just in appearance, but in his playing mechanics as well. It\u2019s a comparison Raiola has addressed directly when asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody be like, ‘Oh, he wants to be like him,’ and all this stuff,” Raiola said on CBS Sports Confidential Conversations.<\/a> “It just so happens he played baseball, I played baseball. He plays quarterback, I play quarterback … I can’t get mad at God for making me look like him.”<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, the sophomore quarterback was publicly criticized by NFL insider James Palmer, who blasted Raiola for leaning too far into the Mahomes comparisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry you can\u2019t copy everything a NFL player does, from his pregame routine, walk, haircut, throwing motion, number, hand signals, the list goes on and on \u2026 and then say I\u2019m my own guy and I have my own last name. You are the one that created all of this. So bizarre,\u201d Palmer posted.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Palmer clearly isn’t a fan of how Raiola is handling the comparisons. The young quarterback seems to have embraced the label and run with it.<\/p>\n

That said, Raiola still needs to carve out his own identity. If he continues modeling himself so closely after Mahomes, he may need to take a step back and reassess. Raiola hasn\u2019t yet come close to matching Mahomes\u2019 success\u2014or delivering consistent wins for the Cornhuskers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL insider torches Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola over paradox in carbon-copying Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,82532,82906,6427,6443,514,2218,82907,82],"class_list":["post-158729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dylan-raiola","tag-james-palmer","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-sophomore-quarterback","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}