Which Huskies were you most excited about that never panned out?

For me, it would be Mike Lustyk, Kevin Ware and James Johnson.

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Stanback to me seems like era and coaching. He would be big time now.

Kasen Williams should have been a RB or LB.

I thought Greyson Gunheim was gonna be like the best football player ever.

BeerThirty

Many are recent QBs. Casey Paus, Nick Montana, Cyler Miles, Yankoff, Huard. Lots of misses there
You almost have to eliminate the QB position, which by its very nature disappoints and succeeds like a MLB batting avg. If you get 3 of 10 to work out, you are fucking killing it.

I was still excited about them and they never panned out. They fit this thread topic to a tee

BeerThirty

I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have

Stanback paid the bills with NFL money for a few years. More than most college football players can say

ntxduck

I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have
Stanback paid the bills with NFL money for a few years. More than most college football players can say

As WR though, not qb. Shows how freaky of an athlete he was, however

BeerThirty

I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have
Stanback paid the bills with NFL money for a few years. More than most college football players can say
As WR though, not qb. Shows how freaky of an athlete he was, however

Jacksonville even moved him to TE for a couple games

Baseman

Recency bias aside, Myles Murao

GrundleStiltzkin

Recency bias aside, Myles Murao

Dane Crane.

BeerThirty

Saama Paamama or whatever his name was. The DT from Hawaii who quit before he started. The TBS'ers were acting like he was the 2nd coming of Emtman.

Tuitele is headed down this path too. Kid still has time though

WoolleyDoog

Local kids who didn’t qualify could be a category. Andrew Basham, Ali Gaye and Keauntea Bankhead.

1to392831weretaken

Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...

chuck

Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...

Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though

FireCohen

Ted buddy - he just needed more time

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Stanback to me seems like era and coaching. He would be big time now.

Kasen Williams should have been a RB or LB.

I thought Greyson Gunheim was gonna be like the best football player ever.

Gunheim at least made a training camp or 2. With real coaching, he might’ve done something.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Something made me go back and look up something in the 2018 class.

Ranked 16th overall with 20 commits, 8 of the top 10 sucked or were hurt.

The 2 that panned out were Tuli and Kyler Gordon.

The rest of that top 10:

Spiker
Yank off
Sirmon (QB)
Door dash Taimani
Osborne
Irvin
Bynum

From the other 10 in the class,

6 starters/contributors:

Mele
Culp
ZTF
Ale
Newton
Hampton

The other 4:

Tafisi - Utah St
Sirmon the LB - 1st team all Pac12 at Cal
Curne - Oklahoma
Nasili-Kite - he’s at Auburn according to 24/7

12/20 were misses.

1to392831weretaken

Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...
Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though

Yeah they were, he just broke his leg or something. He was going to start as soon as a coupl NFLers got out of the way.

chuck

Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...
Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though
Yeah they were, he just broke his leg or something. He was going to start as soon as a coupl NFLers got out of the way.

Wow that's not how I remember it at all. That doesn't really surprise me though. The way I remembered it he was squeezed out because he sucked and we ended up with John Ross at corner. It's all pretty hazy now though.

Either way he was a good mention. I was excited about him and he didn't pan out.

1to392831weretaken

Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...
Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though
Yeah they were, he just broke his leg or something. He was going to start as soon as a coupl NFLers got out of the way.
Wow that's not how I remember it at all. That doesn't really surprise me though. The way I remembered it he was squeezed out because he sucked and we ended up with John Ross at corner. It's all pretty hazy now though.

Either way he was a good mention. I was excited about him and he didn't pan out.

We both remembered it wrong. For some reason I thought he came after Sidney Jones, but he came before. He beat out Naijiel Hale, Travell Dixon, and Sidney Jones to start across from Marcus Peters as a redshirt freshman. He started the first two games, broke his ankle, never played as a Husky again. Jones took over for him as a true freshman starter and never looked back.

Kelly ended up transferring to SJSU because of injuries and family obligations and played well there. Got drafted in the seventh round, but injuries kept him from doing anything in the NFL. Bounced around the CFL and is now in the USFL. I don't think the high school film necessarily lied, he just couldn't stay healthy.

LebamDawg

Would all of them between 2003 and 2009 be too much of a generalization?

DerekJohnson

Budda Baker.
solid post
I thought it was funny enough.
I chortled.

I guffawed

@GrundleStiltzkin

creepycoug

I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have

Arguably the best pure athlete to ever play for UW.