
Marshawn Lynch has stronger ties to "The Town" than just about anybody, as he attended high school at Oakland Tech.
On Monday night's broadcast of the Raiders' season opener against the Los Angeles Rams, ESPN gave a glimpse of what the running back looked like during those high school days, and, well ... the picture must be seen to believed.
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We have a feeling Lynch wasn't calling himself "Beast Mode" too often back then.
The present-day version of Lynch opened the scoring in Jon Gruden's Raiders return after bulldozing through most of the Rams' defense, in case it wasn't clear he earned the "Beast Mode" moniker.