Washington Huskies Fall Camp 2019 Recap Open Thread

"It comes back to execution, which falls back on me," Hamdan said this weekend after UW's second day of fall camp. "It was a good, long, tough off-season. We went to work and feel a lot better about where we're at right now."

Hamdan mentioned simplification of the offense, as well as running the same concepts at a higher rate and spotlighting receivers more down the field as things that helped them get better this past spring.

"We've simplified it, we're executing at a much higher rate from the passing game, said Hamdan. And that was true last April, as receivers like Terrell Bynum emerged as threats down the field.

"I think we know what we are going to hang our hat on with the ability to run the ball. But having a passing game and having guys make plays with the ball in the air is critical. I think a lot of times when you give them a chance, some of the guys you maybe would not expect to be great with the ball in the air end up being a lot better.”

"He's a cerebral kid when he plays," Hamdan said of Eason. "For him, working on his quick-twitch muscles, getting the ball out on time, will be critical.

"There's not a lot of times in the game of football where you're throwing the ball more than 48 yards down the field. I think it can help you more when you're a little bit late. You can sneak a ball in there. But if you're playing with great timing and rhythm, you see that in the NFL. Some of those guys aren't necessarily the biggest arms.

"If you look at the last couple of guys who have won the Heisman Trophy, they've been 6-foot, sub-6-foot guys. It comes down to feel. Can you process information fast, can you see it, can you play the game?”

Doogman:

- The defense came up with four interceptions, only three of which counted as one involved pass interference, while the offense had several big plays but only one touchdown.

- The quarterback competition continues, but Jacob Eason sure looks like he's feeling much more comfortable at the controls of the offense, stepping up deftly to avoid the rush, hitting quick passes to receivers and finding open players on his check-downs. Eason found Jordan Chin down the near sideline with a perfectly placed pass that allowed Chin to go up in the air over the corner in coverage

- Ty Jones' reputation during his first two seasons with the Dawgs was that he was a big receiver who plays small. This fall he has been starting to take the next step, and on Tuesday, he went up and make some nice catches with players draped on him and he even broke off a route and got open for Eason as the quarterback scrambled to get away from the pass rush. He also high pointed a ball from Haener in the middle of three defenders.

- Jake Haener had the play of the day, finding Westover in the back of the endzone and made a couple of nice throws that resulted in first downs. Haener was intercepted in 7v7 work by Kyler Gordon who made a nice break on a pass, but otherwise, he had a solid day.

- Jacob Sirmon and Dylan Morris each had some nice throws and both seemed to have some success between the 20s, but once they got into the redzone, they struggled. Morris did find Puka Nacua across the middle for a nice catch with Mishael Powell draped all over him.

- Salvon Ahmed had a big run in one of the final full team sessions, making a defensive tackle miss in the backfield and then bursting to his left down the sidelines for a 30-yard run.

- Two other players worth mentioning are tight end Hunter Bryant and receiver Chico McClatcher. Both have been the most consistent playmakers for the Husky offense in the first week of camp and each were consistent in getting open and making plays down the field on Tuesday.

- Near the end of practice, Laiatu Latu and redshirt freshman Zion Tupuola-Fetui were both in as the edge players with the first unit, playing alongside Josiah Bronson and Levi Onwuzurike along the defensive front.

- Latu definitely looks like a player who will see playing time this fall with his size and explosiveness to go along with his natural pass-rushing skills. He never seems to be phased by anything and he has the size and strength to play right away.

- 1st team secondary was Myles Bryant and Cameron Williams at safety, Keith Taylor and Kyler Gordon at corner and Elijah Molden over the slot as the nickel corner.

- Dominique Hampton intercepted Dylan Morris whileAsa Turner intercepted Sirmon.

- Peyton Henry appears to be pulling away from freshman Tim Horn at this point. Even with a 10 to 15 mph cross-wind, Henry was still able to hit on his three "live" attempts (32, 39 and 30) while Horn missed on two of his three attempts from the same distances. Henry is hitting the ball very well, especially when you compare his kicks to things at this time last year.

Caple:

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.

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