Dylan
Laube.
Dylan
Laube.
New Hampshire· 5'10"· 206 lb· 4.54s 40
"He led the entire FCS in all-purpose yards two years running and still had to prove it at the Senior Bowl — the small-school tax, paid in full and in public."Pre-draft read
Laube was New Hampshire's offense, not just its running back. He aligned in the backfield, in the slot and split wide, and the best version of him is a route runner with a ball carrier's body: real stem detail, a feel for finding grass against zone, and hands strong enough to be a first read rather than a checkdown.
As a runner he is a one-cut, tempo-and-vision back who sets up blocks patiently and gets skinny through creases, more slippery than physical. He will not move a pile or run through an unblocked linebacker at 206 pounds. Add two seasons as an FCS-leading kick and punt returner and the signature is obvious: touches in space, however you want to manufacture them.
A spread, motion-heavy passing offense that treats the third running back as a movable slot weapon — screens, option routes, jet motion and empty-formation looks — paired with a wide-zone run game that rewards one-cut vision instead of asking him to run duo.
Year 1: RB3 and primary kick returner with a designed package of five to eight touches per game in the passing game. Ceiling: a genuine third-down and gadget back in the mold of a change-of-pace weapon who forces base defenses off the field.
A downhill gap-scheme run game that wants its backs to grind out short yardage and win one-on-one in pass protection against blitzing linebackers — the two things his frame and technique cannot cover.
His entire NFL value depends on a coordinator willing to script touches for him. Left to the natural flow of a depth chart, he is a special teamer, and that is exactly what has happened in Las Vegas.
Dylan Laube 2023 Highlights | New Hampshire RB | 2024 NFL Draft Prospect
Full senior-year reel: the route running, the 295-yard game at Central Michigan and the return work that led FCS in all-purpose yards.
Dylan Laube is the BEST Receiving RB in the 2024 NFL Draft
Film breakdown of the receiving package that made him a Day 3 target — slot alignments, option routes and hands catches away from the frame.
UNH running back Dylan Laube drafted in sixth round by Las Vegas Raiders
Local coverage of the draft call, the one-offer recruiting story and New Hampshire's reaction to pick 208.
One scholarship offer out of Westhampton Beach on Long Island, and it came from FCS New Hampshire. Six years later Laube left Durham with 7,197 all-purpose yards and 47 touchdowns across 46 games, and with the distinction of leading all of FCS in all-purpose yards per game in back-to-back seasons — 194.3 in 2022, 209.5 in 2023. Not a runner who catches, but a skill player who happened to line up at running back.
The signature game came in the 2023 opener at Central Michigan: 295 receiving yards, a school record, in a 45-42 loss to an FBS team. He stacked All-America nods in 2022 and 2023, earned CAA Special Teams Player of the Year for averaging 31 yards per kick return and better than 11 per punt return, and captained the team. The flags were the ones every FCS skill player carries: 206 pounds, no evidence he could survive between the tackles against NFL bodies, and a level-of-competition question no highlight reel answers.
He answered part of it at the Senior Bowl, where a strong practice week moved him from priority-free-agent chatter into real Day 3 territory. Boards had him around RB14 with a fifth-to-seventh round grade. Las Vegas took him 208th, buying receiving juice and return value at the price where you should be buying exactly that.
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Receiving back with real route detail
ran a full slot tree, stemmed defenders and won as a designed first read rather than living on checkdowns and swing passes.
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Hands and ball tracking
catches away from his frame, adjusts over either shoulder and turned New Hampshire's screen and option-route game into an extension of the run game.
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Return-game production
CAA Special Teams Player of the Year at 31 yards per kick return and 11-plus per punt return, with four career return touchdowns.
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Vision and tempo as a runner
patient one-cut back who sets up blocks and finds the crease, with the short-area quickness to make the first defender miss in the hole.
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Testing profile backs the tape
4.54 forty, 37-inch vertical, 6.84 three-cone and 23 bench reps at 206 pounds, an athlete good enough for the NFL if the role fits.
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Level of competition
dominant FCS production against CAA defenses that will not simulate NFL speed, and his one big FBS game was the exception, not the sample.
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Size and power
5-10, 206 pounds, without the contact balance or lower-body drive to run through NFL linebackers or convert short-yardage carries.
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Pass protection projection
willing but overmatched against bigger blitzers, which is the single fastest way a receiving back gets left on the sideline on third down.
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Ball security concerns
put the ball on the ground more than a rotational back who touches it in traffic can afford, and it followed him into the NFL.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.54sp50
- Vertical
- 37inp50
- Broad jump
- 118inp50
- Three-cone
- 6.84sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.02sp50
- Bench
- 23repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Att | Yds | TD | Rec | RecYds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | New Hampshire | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | New Hampshire | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | New Hampshire | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | New Hampshire | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | New Hampshire | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | New Hampshire | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 46 | 0 | 2773 | 29 | 171 | 1791 |
New Hampshire is an FCS program and its public archive does not expose a reconcilable year-by-year statistical table for Laube; the secondary sources that do publish season lines contradict each other and do not sum to the verified career totals. Per Rule 0x every unverified season field is left null rather than zero-filled, and only the officially sourced career line is populated.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- First-team FCS All-American (2023)
- AFCA second-team All-American (2022)
- CAA Special Teams Player of the Year (2023)
- Phil Steele All-CAA first team (2023); second-team All-CAA (2022)
- FCS national leader in all-purpose yards per game (2022, 2023)
- UNH single-game receiving record: 295 yards at Central Michigan (2023)
- Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl invitee
- Team captain (2023)
The realistic outcome the traits point to — a return specialist and gadget receiving back whose value is measured in the third phase and a handful of scripted offensive touches.
The dream version: an undersized, overlooked back who becomes a genuine third-down weapon and a 70-catch receiving threat because a coordinator finally builds a package around him.
The floor as it has actually played out: a roster-surviving special teams contributor who never gets the offensive volume his college tape promised.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Las Vegas never treated him as a running back. As a rookie in 2024 he appeared in 10 games with exactly one carry, fumbled it against Pittsburgh in Week 6, and otherwise lived on special teams while the offense cycled through a coaching change. In 2025, under Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly, he played all 17 games and the numbers stayed tiny — seven carries for nine yards, three catches for 18 yards — but the role got real: core special-teamer and primary kick returner, with a 59-yard return against Denver on the ledger and a costly return fumble against Kansas City on the other side of it. The Raiders' own site called him a glue guy, which is both a compliment and a job description. He entered 2026 still on the roster under new head coach Klint Kubiak, buried on a depth chart headlined by Ashton Jeanty.
In hindsight, the pick worked exactly as a sixth-rounder is supposed to work and not one inch further. Vegas got a two-year contributor, a return threat and a special teams body for pick 208, which is a fine return. What never materialized was the receiving-back role his college tape screamed for: nobody has manufactured him touches, and the passing-down job has gone to bigger backs who can protect. The honest read is that the small-school production translated to the third phase and stalled on offense.
Data note: New Hampshire is an FCS program and its public archive does not expose a reconcilable year-by-year statistical table for Laube; the secondary sources that do publish season lines contradict each other and do not sum to the verified career totals. Per Rule 0x every unverified season field is left null rather than zero-filled, and only the officially sourced career line is populated.