free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\n<\/p>\n Asked about Allen’s new era, he gushes that his friend “is in a different realm of life now,” saying that the rest of the team is “thankful” and “blessed” to witness he and his “beautiful wife” prepare for their “beautiful soon-to-be family.”\n<\/p>\n
Dawkins adds that he’ll be there as the baby’s Uncle Schnow, saying that he’ll be “the first uncle outside of his immediate family,” a role that he takes very seriously.\n<\/p>\n
He’s looking forward to seeing Allen as a dad, and he already knows that he’ll “be the best dad ever.”\n<\/p>\n
Why is he so confident? “Because you see how he is with his dog,” the NFL star explains, saying that he’ll be “just as good” with a baby. Continuing, Dawkins jokingly draws comparisons between dogs and babies, saying they’re “both vicious creatures.”\n<\/p>\n
“He’ll be perfect, and I’m happy to see it ’cause it’ll unleash a new world of Josh, right?” he says.\n<\/p>\n
Dawkins knows from firsthand experience, as he shares three children with his fianc\u00e9e, Daiyaana Muhammad.\n<\/p>\n
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“I have children, and it unleashed a new world to me,” he says. “So I can’t wait to see what type of person it morphs him into being such a better person. But Josh and Hailee, we love you.”\n<\/p>\n
Dawkins describes himself to PEOPLE as being “like a kid in a grown man’s body,” but he also takes parenting seriously.\n<\/p>\n
The athlete \u2014\u00a0who is working with Chunky, the official soup of the NFL \u2014 says that that’s an easy meal to make for his little ones. Beyond that, he has some other staples that he’ll fall back on, including “a good grilled cheese” or pancakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW As his close friend and teammate Josh Allen prepares to welcome his first child with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-449588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}