Some players arrive at the stadium trying to disappear. Dylan Laube has gone the other way entirely. His pregame tracksuit routine has become a calling card, a visible part of his identity that started in high school, carried through New Hampshire, and has now followed him into the NFL with the Raiders.
This is not a random fashion flourish. It is a habit with history. At Westhampton Beach High School in New York, Laube first showed up to a team dinner as a freshman in a matching tracksuit and never really let the idea go. At New Hampshire, he wore the team-issued tracksuit before every collegiate contest while putting together 7,197 all-purpose yards and 47 total touchdowns for the UNH Wildcats. By the time he became a 2024 sixth-round pick, the routine had already become part of the package.
The fit became the message
Laube put it plainly: “My pregame fit is a tracksuit.” He added that it comes from “that old style, like an Italian mobster type of thing,” which tells you plenty about the vibe he is chasing. This is not about blending in. It is about arriving with intent, with a bit of theatre, and with a look that teammates notice immediately.
He said he started it in high school and kept it rolling because, once you have found something that feels right, football players tend to protect it. “I did that my whole high school career,” he said. When he got to the Raiders, he did what any committed tracksuit loyalist would do: he kept the ritual alive and leaned into it even more.
Before this year’s season opener against the Miami Dolphins, Laube showed up in a beige Louis Vuitton set and then returned two kickoffs for 95 yards. The performance is one thing; the wardrobe is another. But in Laube’s case, the two seem to belong together. The outfit has become part of the way he walks into the building, and part of the way he seems to carry himself once he gets there.
Raider teammates have fully bought in
The best sign that this is more than a personal quirk is how quickly it has spread through the locker room conversation. Tommy Eichenberg said, “I love them. The whole team loves them,” and added that it “definitely rallies the team” because everyone wants to see which one Laube will wear each week.
Ashton Jeanty was just as direct, saying, “We rock with them for sure,” and noting that Laube has “a different confidence and swag when he's wearing them.” That is the point, really. The tracksuit is not just a look; it is a switch. Jeanty even suggested that the outfit seems to feed Laube’s confidence, which is exactly how pregame rituals are supposed to work when they are more than empty style.
Maxx Crosby’s verdict was even simpler: Laube “is one of one.” That may be the cleanest summary of the whole thing. Plenty of players talk about swagger. Laube has turned his into a uniform.
He said he even contacted The Gentlemen costume designers and, to his surprise, received tracksuits from a company in Ukraine. “I hit them up and I was like, 'There's no shot they're going to send me anything,'” he said. “And they actually sent me like three or four of them. And then I bought a couple after. And they're really good material too.”
There is something refreshingly uncomplicated about all of this. In a league obsessed with margins, Laube has found a pregame routine that is personal, recognizable, and impossible to miss. It began in New York, survived New Hampshire, and has now made its way to the desert. The man knows what he wants to wear, and the Raiders clearly know what they are getting from him: a player with a little extra edge, a little extra confidence, and a tracksuit collection that has become part of the story.
