From the Vault: Terrelle Pryor relives his historic touchdown run against Pittsburgh Steelers, his hometown team

October 27, 2013. Oakland Coliseum. Nineteen seconds into regulation.

Quarterback Terrelle Pryor lined up in shotgun formation on the first play of the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

He still remembers the play call going into the huddle as if it was yesterday and not over a decade ago.

"If I can recall, it was trips right, Y return, 35 possible keep or 35 P," Pryor said. "We also always had alerts overlay. 35 P means possible keep with an alert to trips right, stay in the same formation, Y return, 376 Y stick X slant."

In layman's terms, the offense was running a zone read concept. Pryor's responsibilities were to read outside linebacker Lamar Woodley. If the Steelers linebacker closed in on Pryor with the ball, he would hand off the ball to running back Darren McFadden.

"I'm back there and the way that I went through there, I thought to myself, 'Dang, this is an easy first down right here if he gave it to me,'" McFadden recalled. "So, I was just thinking about making a routine first down and keeping the drive alive."

But instead, Woodley crashed in on McFadden. Therefore, Pryor kept the ball on the play, beelining up the middle of the field.

To the 20, to the 30, to 40, to the 50, all the way to the house untouched. The Raiders got on the board 7-0 with a 93-yard touchdown run from Pryor.

"He made a heck of a read on it and made an even better run getting down there and scoring," McFadden said.

As for how we got this historic play in Week 5 of the 2013 season, let's rewind a few years more to late Owner Al Davis' last draft.

If there's one thing Al Davis loved, it was speed.

It's a physical attribute he relished when acquiring players such as Art Powell, Cliff Branch, James Jett and Bo Jackson. Speed was the name of the game for Mr. Davis, with the quarterback position not being exempt.

Pryor entered the 2011 NFL Supplemental Draft after three dominant seasons at Ohio State. In his collegiate tenure, he recorded 6,177 passing yards and 2,164 rushing yards with an impressive 76 total touchdowns – passing, rushing and receiving.

After leading to Buckeyes to two Big Ten Championships, he marveled scouts and coaches at his Pro Day, as the 6-foot-4, 240-pound athlete ran a 4.38 40-yard dash.

"There's like 30 head coaches there at my Pro Day for the supplemental draft and the Raiders weren't there," Pryor said. "There were a couple of teams there interested. The supplemental [draft] is a little different, they'll sit you down and ask you for the opportunity.

"Pittsburgh wanted to draft me. Mike Tomlin and their GM at the time, they sat me down and said, 'Hey, we want to take you in the second round.' But I just didn't want to be close to home."

In the third round of the 2011 NFL Supplemental Draft, the Oakland Raiders selected Pryor – Al Davis' last draft pick in his lifetime. While Pryor was shocked considering how his pre-draft process went, he wasn't surprised considering what he knew about Davis.

"When he picked me, I knew he liked mobility and I knew he liked the athletic quarterbacks," Pryor said. "There was a lot of receiver talk at the time and I said, 'Maybe I come here and have a few good games or something like that' and I knew Mr. Davis would give me an opportunity. And he did. We had some really good conversations before he passed and I knew he believed in me. That's all that matters."

As Pryor alluded, there was a discussion about him moving to wide receiver full-time. While the Raiders were invested on developing him as a quarterback, it took some time to get him adjusted within the Raiders offense. In his first two seasons as a Raider, he sat behind Jason Campbell and former Heisman winner Carson Palmer.

Pryor's time to shine finally came in 2013 after beating out Matt Flynn and Tyler Wilson for the starting job. He came out the gate swinging in Week 1 and rushed for 112 yards to break the franchise record for rushing yards by a quarterback in a game. However, setting the record was a bittersweet moment as the Silver and Black still fell to the Indianapolis Colts, 21-17.

"Having a guy like that is so electrifying the way Terrelle was," McFadden said. "It's hard on a defense. He's a guy that can complete a pass, get the ball downfield and if something breaks down there in the backfield, he can scramble and make it happen with his legs.

"It was just always fun playing with a guy like that because you never knew what you were going to get out of him, but he was definitely going to be a playmaker."

While he continued to set the tone with his athletic ability, it didn't come through in the win column. The Silver and Black were 2-4 with Week 7 against the Pittsburgh Steelers on the horizon.

"Going into that game, we had just beat the Chargers on a Thursday night. … I had a really good game and then we went in to the play against the Chiefs and I got sacked [nine] times," Pryor said. "It was a wild game, really good defense we played against, and then we went into Pittsburgh and my mentality was the same as always."

While the mentality remained the same, there were a few added emotions considering the team he was facing.

Pryor grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, roughly 30 miles southeast of Three Rivers Stadium, where the Steelers played from 1970 to 2000.

"To be honest, I wanted to play well because I knew everyone in Pittsburgh were going to be watching, and I wanted to play well in front of Mike Tomlin simply [because] I idolized him growing up. I wanted to give it to the Steelers bad.

"My whole thought process was, 'I want to do some damage here.' I'm on national TV in front of a live crowd. My family, I knew they'd be mad if we beat them."

And in the swoop of one play, a national audience saw why Al Davis made Pryor a Raider.

"When they lined up, there was one high safety and I thought for sure Lamar Woodley, I'm reading him, and I said, 'There's no way he's just going to run down after Darren," Pryor said. "So, when I get the snap, sure as hell, when I get the ball in my hand, he goes down and chases down Darren."

"Then I come through running the ball and there's another idol I grew up watching, Troy Polamalu from California. I started cruising past him and then I'm like, 'Man, there is nothing in front of me. What's going on here?' And once I saw all that green I said, 'There's nobody that can catch me from behind."

Pryor rushed for 106 yards in the game and helped defeat the Steelers, 21-18. The 93-yard rush still stands as the longest rush by a quarterback in NFL history, a record he holds dearly. His game-worn uniform was sent to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's archives in Canton, Ohio.

"I think records are meant to be broken. With all praise to God, maybe it doesn't but you never know," said Pryor of the NFL milestone. "But they're meant to be broken though.

"It was just a crazy, crazy play and something I'll remember for the rest of my life."