Former Virginia Tech wide receiver Jaylin Lane is now in the NFL. The South Carolina native began his career at Middle Tennessee before transferring to the Hokies for his final two seasons. In April, the Washington Commanders selected Lane in the fourth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, with GM Adam Peters calling Lane the best returner in the draft and one of the top slot receivers.<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t taken Lane long to impress Washington coaches and teammates. Star quarterback Jayden Daniels is impressed with Lane. So is head coach Dan Quinn. Same for offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury.<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s OC recently met with the media and praised the rookie wideout, and even gave a sad glimpse into what Hokie fans know all too well: Virginia Tech\u2019s offense has stunk in recent years.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been very impressive,\u201d Kingsbury said of Lane. \u201cHe\u2019s a coach\u2019s kid, been around the game his entire life, and if you tell him how to do it one time, he usually nails it, and then if he makes a mistake, he\u2019ll come back and get it corrected, but super, super talented, very fast. I\u2019ve been really impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n
High praise from one of the best offensive minds in all of football. Now, to the next part.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think I could see some of those things at Virginia Tech, watching the film, and getting him here in person, and watching him run around, and watching the coachability and the route tree that he can run. It\u2019s been really impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019re looking at you, Tyler Bowen.<\/p>\n
Bowen was VT\u2019s offensive coordinator for the past three seasons and mainly got middling results, despite excellent talent at the skill positions. The sad part for longtime Virginia Tech fans, the school\u2019s offensive ineptitude predated Bowen. Justin Fuente and Brad Cornelsen were terrible. The final years of Frank Beamer weren\u2019t great, either.<\/p>\n
Bowen is gone now. He left the Hokies to take over as Ohio State\u2019s offensive line coach. Replacing him is Phillip Montgomery. Montgomery is a longtime college football offensive coordinator and former head coach. He\u2019s gotten results everywhere he\u2019s been. Another sad reality is that Bowen wasn\u2019t even head coach Brent Pry\u2019s worst coordinator over the last three years.<\/p>\n
As for Lane, he\u2019ll make his NFL debut in Friday\u2019s preseason opener against the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Virginia Tech wide receiver Jaylin Lane is now in the NFL. The South Carolina native began his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,52375,6,3360,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-268820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-hokies-in-the-nfl","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-virginia-tech-football","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-commanders","15":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114987149553794928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268820","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=268820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}