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Projected UW Starting Defense For Next Season
ChillyDawg
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Outside Linebackers
Starters: Zion Tupuola-Fetui & Sav'ell Smalls
Defensive Tackles
Starters: Tuli Letuligasenoa & Kuao Peihopa
Inside Linebackers
Starters: Edefuan Ulofoshio & Carson Bruener
Cornerbacks
Starters: Jacobe Covington & Jordan Perryman
Safeties
Starters: Cam Williams & Alex Cook
The Huskies had seven different players start at the two safety spots last season as injuries and poor play kept the carousel spinning. Williams worked hard to reclaim the first-team job he held as a true freshman and he made the hit of the year in overtime on the goal line against Cal, only to go down with nagging injuries. Cook similarly is a veteran guy who has shown himself to be a physical and fairly dependable player, but his season was interrupted when he left the field on a stretcher at Arizona and went into concussion protocol for a few weeks. If those two can't stay healthy, Asa Turner and Julius Irvin have started and played a lot and won't be starstruck.
Hybrid Safety (Husky)
Starter: Dominique Hampton
Comments
So ZTF and either Smalls / Trice / Martin will be DEs.
Maybe someone like Martin (270 lbs) slides inside on obvious passing downs and Tuli L. keeps his snap count a little lower.