“I can’t wait for my family to go see it, all my friends to go see it,” Nassib said on the podcast. “Again, it’s like, this is a thank you to people that came before me. I really didn’t do much for it. I was gifted these opportunities. I earned my spot as a football player, but I was gifted all these opportunities. And a big shout out to the museum for having that representation. … I really appreciate the Smithsonian for saying, ‘Hey, this is an important story. We want to make sure this gets remembered.'”<\/p>\n
The jersey is from the Raiders’ 2021 season opener against the Baltimore Ravens. In action as the first openly gay player to appear in a regular season game, Nassib secured a strip sack on two-time NFL MVP Lamar Jackson that ultimately led to a walkoff touchdown that gave the Raiders the 33-27 overtime win.<\/p>\n
The edge rusher retired after the 2022 season, having played seven seasons in the NFL. In his two-year stint with the Las Vegas Raiders, he totaled 33 solo tackles, five pass deflections, one interception and four sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I can’t wait for my family to go see it, all my friends to go see it,” Nassib…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,268,269,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-108273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-home-centerpiece","10":"tag-home-latest-stories","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114635841783604610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}