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Dylan Raiola

QB · Oregon · via Nebraska · 2027 NFL Draft class

Limited public coverage2 contributing sources·Board as of August 31, 2026
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Preseason edition · August 23, 20264 min read

Master scouting report

Raiola is a strong-armed pocket passer with the touch and placement to run an NFL timing offense. His move to Oregon gives him a development year behind Dante Moore, but limited mobility, slow pressure responses and a broken fibula have pushed his draft timetable beyond a simple 2027 projection.

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01Experience And Current Role

Raiola started 22 games across two seasons at Nebraska before transferring to Oregon in January 2026. Oregon lists him behind returning starter Dante Moore, making this season more about recovery and development than immediate production. He remains draft-eligible in 2027, but a season without meaningful snaps would make a return to school the more natural path.

02Production

He completed 181 of 250 passes for 2,000 yards, 18 touchdowns and six interceptions in nine games during 2025. That 72.4 percent completion rate set a Nebraska season record and marked clear improvement over a freshman year with 13 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The efficiency rose, though the offense still lost too many downs to sacks and negative plays.

03Arm Talent

Raiola can drive the far hash without a strained delivery and throw with useful velocity from several arm slots. He pairs that power with enough touch to layer intermediate routes and give vertical receivers a trackable ball. The arm creates access to every area of the field when his base and protection are sound.

04Accuracy And Placement

Raiola can anticipate a break and place the ball away from leverage instead of relying only on velocity.

05Mechanics

The release is compact for a thickly built quarterback, and he does not need an exaggerated stride to generate pace. Oregon can help by rebuilding the connection between his drop, hitch and progression during a lower-pressure season.

06Processing

Raiola recognizes leverage before the snap and can operate under center, sell play action and distribute through a defined progression. He is slower to concede a lost play, sometimes holding for the preferred route instead of reaching the checkdown or throwing the ball away. That delay narrows clean windows and contributes directly to the sack problem.

07Pocket Management

Interior pressure is the clearest stress point. He needs earlier outlets against pressure and more efficient movement inside the pocket, not a wholesale transformation into a scrambling quarterback.

08Mobility

He can execute boots and move the launch point, but he is not a creator an offense should feature in the designed run game. The NFL role must be built around pocket command, with movement used selectively to change the picture.

09Availability

A broken fibula against USC ended his 2025 season after nine starts. Oregon managed his spring workload, and he is on the active 2026 roster, but he enters the fall as a reserve rather than being asked to carry the offense immediately. A healthy developmental year would answer more than forcing an early return to the field.

10Developmental Outlook

Raiola has already shown that he can improve his completion rate and touchdown-to-interception ratio within one offseason. Learning behind Moore in Oregon's quarterback-friendly system could be valuable even if it delays his draft declaration.

The case for the player

Strengths

  • He has NFL-caliber velocity to attack the far hash and every vertical level.

  • Touch and trajectory complement the arm strength on intermediate and downfield throws.

  • His completion rate rose to a Nebraska-record 72.4 percent in 2025.

  • He cut his interceptions from 11 as a freshman to six in nine sophomore starts.

  • Experience under center and in play action gives him a useful pro-style foundation.

  • At 22 career starts, he has substantial game experience for a developing quarterback.

The questions that remain

Concerns

  • He holds the ball too long when the primary route is covered, turning pressure into avoidable sacks.

  • Limited scrambling value leaves little margin when protection breaks down.

  • A broken fibula ended 2025 and interrupted the momentum of his improved sophomore season.

  • Backing up Dante Moore may leave him without enough 2026 snaps to support an early declaration.

Building the fit

NFL role and scheme fit

Raiola belongs in a structure-heavy offense built around under-center play action, intermediate timing routes and selected vertical shots. A strong protection plan and clear pressure outlets let his arm and placement control the game, while boots can change the launch point without making him a run-first player. He should not be asked to rescue poor protection through improvisation. With better pocket movement and faster checkdown decisions, he can develop into an NFL starter.

The Draftanomics view

Bottom line

Raiola has starting-caliber arm talent and took a meaningful statistical step in 2025. Oregon offers an excellent place to repair those issues, even if his reserve role pushes the draft decision into 2028. His long-term ceiling remains an NFL starter in a timing and play-action offense.

Sources & edition

The Draftanomics assessment, synthesized from attributed reporting. Role and development language expresses scouting opinion.

Original analysis through August 23, 2026. Restoration reviewed September 6, 2026; this is not an in-season update. No new Draftanomics all-22 review is included.

8 original sentences are omitted pending further evidence or source-use review. The remaining wording is preserved. Source links support the assessment; they do not represent independent votes or permission to reproduce an article.

View the 5 referenced sources
  • Dylan Raiola - Football - University of Oregon AthleticsOregon Athletics

    Oregon identifies Raiola as a transfer with 13 starts in 2024 and nine in 2025. His 2025 record was 181 completions on 250 attempts for 2,000 yards and 18 touchdowns, with a school-record 72.4% completion rate. In 2024 he completed 275 of 410 passes for 2,819 yards and 13 touchdowns. Conflicting Akron game totals are not used.

  • Dylan Raiola - Football 2025 - University of Nebraska - Official Athletics WebsiteNebraska Athletics

    Nebraska records the USC injury after nine starts, his completion-percentage record and all 13 starts in 2024, including the bowl. The 2024 UCLA injury was followed by a return and was not season-ending. The biography describes a pocket-focused role with some productive scrambles.

  • Dylan Raiola — retained nfl_draft_buzz evaluationNFL Draft Buzz

    Easy velocity from varied arm angles, a trackable deep ball, fluid power transfer, anticipatory placement and under-center play action and quick passing. The evaluation identifies limited running creation, panic against interior pressure and holding the ball too long. Its incorrect Nebraska-return statement, charted metrics, rankings and projected testing are excluded.

  • Oregon quarterback spring rolesTyson Alger · May 6, 2026

    Moore established starter,Raiola experienced reserve with development year;player comfortable after spring game with room to improve.

  • Raiola spring availability and roleThe Quack Report · July 25, 2026

    The dated report describes managed early-spring participation following the November 1 fibula injury, full participation by the spring game and a backup role behind Moore. Roster membership alone is not treated as evidence of health.

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Sources for the evaluation
  1. House assessment

    Raiola is a strong-armed pocket passer with the touch and placement to run an NFL timing offense.

  2. House assessment

    His move to Oregon gives him a development year behind Dante Moore, but limited mobility, slow pressure responses and a broken fibula have pushed his draft timetable beyond a simple 2027 projection.

Sources for experience and current role
  1. House assessment

    Raiola started 22 games across two seasons at Nebraska before transferring to Oregon in January 2026.

  2. House assessment

    Oregon lists him behind returning starter Dante Moore, making this season more about recovery and development than immediate production.

  3. House assessment

    He remains draft-eligible in 2027, but a season without meaningful snaps would make a return to school the more natural path.

Sources for production
  1. House assessment

    He completed 181 of 250 passes for 2,000 yards, 18 touchdowns and six interceptions in nine games during 2025.

  2. House assessment

    That 72.4 percent completion rate set a Nebraska season record and marked clear improvement over a freshman year with 13 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

  3. House assessment

    The efficiency rose, though the offense still lost too many downs to sacks and negative plays.

Sources for arm talent
  1. House assessment

    Raiola can drive the far hash without a strained delivery and throw with useful velocity from several arm slots.

  2. House assessment

    He pairs that power with enough touch to layer intermediate routes and give vertical receivers a trackable ball.

  3. House assessment

    The arm creates access to every area of the field when his base and protection are sound.

Sources for accuracy and placement
  1. House assessment

    Raiola can anticipate a break and place the ball away from leverage instead of relying only on velocity.

Sources for mechanics
  1. House assessment

    The release is compact for a thickly built quarterback, and he does not need an exaggerated stride to generate pace.

  2. House assessment

    Oregon can help by rebuilding the connection between his drop, hitch and progression during a lower-pressure season.

Sources for processing
  1. House assessment

    Raiola recognizes leverage before the snap and can operate under center, sell play action and distribute through a defined progression.

  2. House assessment

    He is slower to concede a lost play, sometimes holding for the preferred route instead of reaching the checkdown or throwing the ball away.

  3. House assessment

    That delay narrows clean windows and contributes directly to the sack problem.

Sources for pocket management
  1. House assessment

    Interior pressure is the clearest stress point.

  2. House assessment

    He needs earlier outlets against pressure and more efficient movement inside the pocket, not a wholesale transformation into a scrambling quarterback.

Sources for mobility
  1. House assessment

    He can execute boots and move the launch point, but he is not a creator an offense should feature in the designed run game.

  2. House assessment

    The NFL role must be built around pocket command, with movement used selectively to change the picture.

Sources for availability
  1. House assessment

    A broken fibula against USC ended his 2025 season after nine starts.

  2. House assessment

    Oregon managed his spring workload, and he is on the active 2026 roster, but he enters the fall as a reserve rather than being asked to carry the offense immediately.

  3. House assessment

    A healthy developmental year would answer more than forcing an early return to the field.

Sources for developmental outlook
  1. House assessment

    Raiola has already shown that he can improve his completion rate and touchdown-to-interception ratio within one offseason.

  2. House assessment

    Learning behind Moore in Oregon's quarterback-friendly system could be valuable even if it delays his draft declaration.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    He has NFL-caliber velocity to attack the far hash and every vertical level.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    Touch and trajectory complement the arm strength on intermediate and downfield throws.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    His completion rate rose to a Nebraska-record 72.4 percent in 2025.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    He cut his interceptions from 11 as a freshman to six in nine sophomore starts.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    Experience under center and in play action gives him a useful pro-style foundation.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    At 22 career starts, he has substantial game experience for a developing quarterback.

Sources for concern
  1. House assessment

    He holds the ball too long when the primary route is covered, turning pressure into avoidable sacks.

Sources for concern
  1. House assessment

    Limited scrambling value leaves little margin when protection breaks down.

Sources for concern
  1. House assessment

    A broken fibula ended 2025 and interrupted the momentum of his improved sophomore season.

Sources for concern
  1. House assessment

    Backing up Dante Moore may leave him without enough 2026 snaps to support an early declaration.

Sources for nfl role and scheme fit
  1. House assessment

    Raiola belongs in a structure-heavy offense built around under-center play action, intermediate timing routes and selected vertical shots.

  2. House assessment

    A strong protection plan and clear pressure outlets let his arm and placement control the game, while boots can change the launch point without making him a run-first player.

  3. House assessment

    He should not be asked to rescue poor protection through improvisation.

  4. House assessment

    With better pocket movement and faster checkdown decisions, he can develop into an NFL starter.

Sources for bottom line
  1. House assessment

    Raiola has starting-caliber arm talent and took a meaningful statistical step in 2025.

  2. House assessment

    Oregon offers an excellent place to repair those issues, even if his reserve role pushes the draft decision into 2028.

  3. House assessment

    His long-term ceiling remains an NFL starter in a timing and play-action offense.

College record & draft context

College production, measurables, experience, and the prospect's place on the sealed Public Draft Board.

Public Draft Board

Limited public coverage

Not enough sources for a consensus rank. 2 of the 3 contributing public sources required for a numbered rank.

No overall rank, position rank, or movement is assigned.

Sealed snapshot as of August 31, 2026 · equal-weight aggregation of public boards, minimum 3 sources for a rank · The Public Draft Board

College production

Passing
StatisticSeason 2024Season 2025
Attempts409250
Completions274181
Completion %67%72%
Passing yards28062000
Yards per attempt6.98
Passing TD1318
Interceptions116
Rushing
StatisticSeason 2024Season 2025
Carries5046
Rushing yards-65-87
Yards per carry-1.3-1.9
Rushing TD00
Long3817

Seasons of evidence: 2. Games played, snap counts, and usage shares are not in the retained data. An em dash means the value is not in the dataset, not zero.

Evidence notes

  • The retained data contains 2 seasons of passing, rushing production (2024–2025).
  • Passing yards decreased in each observed season (2806 → 2000).
  • The newest college season in the retained data is 2025; the 2026 season is not yet included.
  • No verified athletic testing is included in the sealed dataset for this prospect.
  • Public-source coverage is limited to 2 contributing boards, so no consensus rank is assigned.

Each note restates a displayed fact. None is a forecast of NFL performance.

Experience and measurements

Listed height
6'3"
Listed weight
230 lb
Class
Junior
Age
Not in dataset
Recorded school
Oregon
Former school
Nebraska
Hometown
Buford, GA
Jersey
#8
Recruiting stars
5-star
Recruiting rank
#21 nationally

"Not in dataset" means the value is absent from the sealed dossier dataset, not that it does not exist.

Athletic testing

Not included in the sealed dataset. No combine, pro-day, or RAS value is retained for the 2027 class; absence here does not mean no testing has taken place.

Listed roster height and weight (CollegeFootballData); no verified athletic testing is retained. Bio captured August 29, 2026.

Historical comparisons

Historical profile comparisons are being rebuilt.

Sources and methodology

  • Retained bio and measurements: Draftanomics prospect ingest (CollegeFootballData rosters and recruiting), retained seed data/seed/prospects_upcoming_full.parquet.
  • Retained college production: CollegeFootballData season statistics via the retained player cross-reference; position-relevant categories only; all-zero category rows dropped.
  • Age: unavailable — no birth date or age is retained for the 2027 class.
  • Transfer history: not retained — the page shows the current school and, where the frozen id names a different school, the former school.
  • Public Draft Board: sealed snapshot as of August 31, 2026; per-source ranks are not published under the aggregate-only source policy.

Board methodologyDossier methodologyResearch status

Board position reflects aggregated public opinion; the scouting report is a separate editorial assessment.