Ralph Waldo Van Dyke III (born January 19, 1964) is an American former professional football offensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL).
[5] Van Dyke was a redshirt during his freshman year at Southern Illinois in 1982.
He became a starter for the team by the fifth game of the 1983 season, and was noted as an "extremely aggressive" hard worker by coach Rod Sherrill in 1983, shortly before the Salukis won the NCAA Division I-AA championship.
[9] He signed with the team in late July 1987,[10] but was waived roughly a month later on August 31.
He suffered a sprain to his knee in July 1988 during the team's training camp in Flagstaff, requiring him to be sent south to Phoenix for treatment.