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Washington Huskies Fall Camp 2019 Recap Open Thread
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Latu is going to be so good.
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DoogCourics you are a gentleman and a scholar. TYFYS
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Salvon Ahmed can run, and he can run fast — faster, in fact, than any other player on Washington’s roster, if his hand-timed, 4.32-second 40-yard dash is the barometer.
He can run. But can he run … and run again … and run again, and again, and again, in the mold of Myles Gaskin, the school’s departed career rushing leader who carried it 259 times as a senior? Ahmed can burn around end like few others in the Pac-12, but can he bang through a scrum for 3 yards, fall forward for 2 more, pop right back up and do it again on second down?
He actually wasn’t bad between the tackles last season, data provided by Sports Info Solutions shows. It’s a small sample size, but Ahmed carried between the tackles 29 times for 118 yards, a per-carry average of 4.1. Gaskin, by comparison, carried between the tackles 99 times for 428 yards and three touchdowns, an average of 4.3 per attempt.
All seven of Ahmed’s touchdowns came on runs outside the tackles, though they weren’t all home runs — he scored on gains of 5, 7, 25, 2, 7, 4 and 4 yards. A little more than 72 percent of Ahmed’s carries were outside the tackles, and he averaged 6.5 yards per rush on those attempts. Gaskin, too, was more productive outside the tackles, averaging 5.3 yards per rush with nine touchdowns, with those attempts accounting for 61.1 percent of his total carries.
And for what it’s worth, Ahmed totaled more yards after contact per carry — 337 on 104 attempts, an average of 3.2 — than Gaskin (764 yards on 259 attempts, or 2.9 per rush).
The reality is that UW might not need Ahmed to withstand the bumps and bruises that accompany a 20- to 25-carry performance because the Huskies have two other backs — juniors Sean McGrew and Kamari Pleasant — who saw significant time last season, and a redshirt freshman, Richard Newton, who continues to impress during camp.
Ahmed says he feels faster, stronger and more confident than he did as a sophomore, and that “I’m working really hard to just be durable throughout the season.”
“The one thing that Salvon has is elite speed and quickness, and (we’re) really just trying to do our best to maximize that talent. It’s going to be exciting kind of watching him develop over this fall camp.”
Other observations from Wednesday’s practice:
- Jacob Eason took the first reps with the No. 1 offense, and led the group to a field goal on his final series of the day. His best throw was a completion over the middle to Hunter Bryant on second-and-15 — off play-action — that picked up a first down. He also had a nice completion to Andre Baccellia on a slant against cornerback Kyler Gordon, and threw two other good balls that were dropped. His final pass, an incompletion on third-and-7, was broken up on a nice play by cornerback Dominique Hampton, who knocked the ball away from Quinten Pounds near the end zone.
- The best drive of the day was engineered by Jake Haener, who led the No. 2 offense on an eight-play, 80-yard journey capped by about a 20-yard touchdown pass to redshirt freshman tight end Jack Westover, who made a nice catch of a nice throw. Haener also connected twice with Ty Jones for solid gains, and found tight end Devin Culp rolling to his right for a big gain, too. Working with the No. 1 offense, Haener also quarterbacked the final series of practice, which began with the aforementioned big run by Ahmed (it appeared to gain 30 or so yards, up the left sideline). But some snap issues stalled things a bit — Henry Roberts was working at center in place of Nick Harris — and Elijah Molden broke up a fourth-and-7 pass to Cade Otton on the final play.
- There were four interceptions Tuesday, with a fifth nullified by penalty. Jacob Sirmon threw the first, a pass tipped by outside linebacker Ariel Ngata and secured by senior walk-on cornerback Dustin Bush. The second went to Hampton, who picked off freshman Dylan Morris on a pass intended for redshirt freshman walk-on receiver David Pritchard. Gordon snagged the third, perfectly reading a route by Jones to intercept a Haener pass during 7-on-7s. And freshman safety Asa Turner intercepted Sirmon during 7-on-7s after receiver Fatu Sua-Godinet fell down. Freshman safety Cam Williams did pick off a throw by Eason — it would have been Eason’s first interception of camp — but a defensive holding penalty against Gordon took it off the board. -
I really liked the kid, and I thought he'd be a starter and a solid player this year. But he's getting outplayed. Molden has looked like the most dynamic DB in camp so far which has pushed Bryant (who is the leader) to safety. And Cam Williams is just flat out beating the brakes off McKinney.PostGameOrangeSlices said:Man McKinney gonna portal?
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Peterman said:
DoogCourics you are a gentleman and a scholar. TYFYS
This is true. I'm really fucking nice and I'm fucking smart to boot.
Oh, you were referencing how I create repositories of premium information and post them in full within the WAM. Then also gather info from multiple sites and post snippets in the public forums too.
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Good stuff on Ahmed
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This is what happens when you stack talent. McKinney I don't think is bad and there is a safety spot opening up next year regardless. Players like this were 4 year starters with sark. Maybe he never starts or only for a year under the current roster.DoogCourics said:
I really liked the kid, and I thought he'd be a starter and a solid player this year. But he's getting outplayed. Molden has looked like the most dynamic DB in camp so far which has pushed Bryant (who is the leader) to safety. And Cam Williams is just flat out beating the brakes off McKinney.PostGameOrangeSlices said:Man McKinney gonna portal?
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LPT was drooling over Chico today. They said on an end-around, Chico exploded around the edge and left everyone in the dust.
Ektard said it reminded him of John Ross in regards to how quickly he accelerated and just separated from the defenders.
Safe to say he's fully healthy for the first time in years.
Edit: Also raved about Culp. Said that last year he looked lost and had some off-field stuff. But he seems to have figured out what he's doing at TE and is running extremely well and catching everything that comes at him. -
I just don't fucking get the kicking thing. How fucking hard is it? I live by a high school where I use the track to run and several times I've seen random HS kicker out there practicing to try to get a college scholarship to some juco or small college and from what I see he's nailing kicks from 35 and in 98% of the time. Shit, I played HS soccer with a polish guy that could kick a ball through a fucking brick wall and hit a FG from 45 easy, and this was just some guy who wasn't even interested in football. And we hand Chris Sailer $10.95 and a blowie for some list and the guys on the list can't hit 3/3 from inside the 40?
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People forget how good a healthy Chico is. People forget that.DoogCourics said:LPT was drooling over Chico today. They said on an end-around, Chico exploded around the edge and left everyone in the dust.
Ektard said it reminded him of John Ross in regards to how quickly he accelerated and just separated from the defenders.
Safe to say he's fully healthy for the first time in years.
Edit: Also raved about Culp. Said that last year he looked lost and had some off-field stuff. But he seems to have figured out what he's doing at TE and is running extremely well and catching everything that comes at him.
I think I had a poast about that a year ago. A year holding the bag, and he's back.
