Raiders' Jack Bech says team is getting a '2-for-1 special' in him as he honors late brother

The Las Vegas Raiders selected wide receiver Jack Bech successful the 2nd circular of the NFL Draft past month, but according to the erstwhile TCU star, the squad got a "two-for-one special."

Bech’s brother, Tiger, was 1 of 14 victims killed successful the violent onslaught connected Bourbon Street successful the aboriginal hours of New Year's Day.

Jack Bech said his imagination of making it to the NFL was not conscionable his own, but his brother's imagination arsenic well. 

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TCU wideout Jack Bech answers questions astatine a property league during the NFL Combine astatine Indiana Convention Center connected Feb. 28, 2025. (Stephanie Amador Blondet-Imagn Images)

"I consciousness like, oregon I don’t consciousness like, I cognize I’m a two-for-one peculiar now. Not lone are the Raiders getting Jack Bech, they are getting Tiger Bech too. This wasn’t conscionable my dream, it was our dream, it was thing that we talked astir from a precise young age. My member ever saw it successful maine mode earlier I adjacent saw it successful myself. So yeah, it was decidedly our dream," helium said during a caller quality connected "Fox & Friends."

"My member is the one, helium pushed maine each and each time to beryllium the best. He showed maine however to live, helium showed maine however to play the game, but astir importantly, showed maine however to beryllium a bully quality being, however to enactment others archetypal and however to genuinely love. So, yeah, it wasn’t conscionable me, it was my brother's dream, my family’s dream, truthful that’s wherefore I said we."

Bech said uncovering retired his member was dormant was a "weird" and "crazy" feeling, but helium has religion successful God and trusts Him. 

"Oh yeah, it was decidedly a weird brainsick feeling. You cognize you ne'er deliberation those things volition hap to you until they really do. It was decidedly a hard pill to swallow, but astatine the extremity of the day, knowing that God makes nary mistakes, and He does everything for a circumstantial crushed and intent and plan, and truly conscionable spell to your knees and afloat clasp that," Bech said. 

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Ex-Princeton postgraduate and shot subordinate Tiger Bech pictured alongside family.

"God does everything for a crushed and that He volition instrumentality attraction of you and my household and that’s what maine and household did and without our religion and content and spot successful God we decidedly would not beryllium wherever we are today. Just similar successful the mode we handled everything and proceed to grip everything."

Bech said his religion originated from his parents taking him to religion arsenic a kid, and that his religion successful God has been strengthened implicit time. 

"I deliberation evidently my parents from a young property conscionable ever bringing maine to church, you cognize conscionable putting the religion connected maine from a young property and conscionable getting older, going done precocious schoolhouse and assemblage conscionable (having) antithetic mentors," Bech said. 

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TCU Horned Frogs wide receiver Jack Bech makes a touchdown drawback against the Baylor Bears astatine McLane Stadium connected Nov. 2, 2024. (Chris Jones-Imagn Images)

"So galore antithetic radical on the mode helping maine enactment connected the close way and not lone helping maine enactment connected the close way but genuinely strengthening my religion on each measurement of the way. It’s been truthful immense to me, and similar I said without each those radical successful my beingness helping physique up my religion I decidedly don’t deliberation I would person been capable to handle, my household wouldn’t person been capable to grip the concern the mode we have."

Bech spent the archetypal 2 seasons of his assemblage vocation with LSU, earlier helium transferred to TCU. The 22-year-old broke retired successful his elder year, arsenic helium had 62 catches for 1,034 yards and 9 receiving touchdowns. 

Bech volition articulation Brock Bowers, Jakobi Meyers and Tre Tucker arsenic weapons for caller Raiders backmost Geno Smith. 

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