The Washington Commanders just added a player with a rare set of athletic traits to the impending competition at punt returner.<\/p>\n
The Commanders used the 128th overall pick — their first of three picks today — to take Virginia Tech wideout Jaylin Lane and add him to a receiver room that already has players like Terry McLaurin and Deebo Samuel. Lane was a solid option for MTSU and the Hokies over five seasons, recording 2,532 yards and 18 touchdowns on 203 receptions.<\/p>\n
But Lane’s biggest contributions, at least at the start of his NFL career, might be on special teams, and he’s excited about that opportunity.<\/p>\n
“Just being back there, I feel like I can make any play, any catch and ultimately, take it to the crib,” Lane said. “That’s what you want to do as a returner.”<\/p>\n
Lane delivered some impressive highlights as a punt returner at the college level, both at MTSU and Virginia Tech. He averaged nearly 11 yards per return during his college career and scored two touchdowns. He ripped off a 58-yarder against Marshall last season and sprinted past the entire coverage unit to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders just added a player with a rare set of athletic traits to the impending competition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,19,7,1806,6,1805,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-16495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-draft","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-football-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-subsection-news","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-commanders","16":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114435285689693980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495","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=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}