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25 Best Dwags Since 2000
WoolleyDoog
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The trend this offseason is to play off they 25 best between the 25 last years. So who are the 25 best Dawgs of this millennium
25. TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins
24. DE Bralen Trice
23. LB Mason Foster
22. S Taylor Rapp
21. DT Larry Tripplett
20. CB Trent McDuffie
19. DE Hau'oli Kikaha
18. DT Vita Vea
17. CB Sidney Jones
16. WR John Ross
15. DT Greg Gaines
14. WR/PR Dante Pettis
13. T Troy Fautanu
12. T Kaleb McGary
11. LB Shaq Thompson
10. RB Bishop Sankey
9. RB Chris Polk
8. QB Jake Locker
7. WR Reggie Williams
6. QB Jake Browning
5. S Budda Baker
4. WR Rome Odunze
3. RB Myles Gaskin
2. QB Marques Tuiasosopo
- QB Michael Penix Jr.
Comments
I'd swap Vita with Gaines. Absolutely love both of them. I'd also say that considering Rosengarten is already starting in the NFL and technically was Penix's blindside, he should probably be on this list.
I factor in length of impact a bit too and Gaines was a rock for four damn years. Vita had an all-time season in 2017 but I honestly don't remember him much even in 2016 so I give Gaines the boost for how long he was great.
Jake Browning #6????? Greg Gaines and Vita Vea behind Lockner????
Vita won conference defensive player of the year. As did BBK. Kinda hard to not put that level of production and recognition in or close to the top 10.
Maybe my old timer bias is showing now but feel like Jerramy Stevens did more at TE than ASJ.
Locker…. so hard to judge. It's so hard to not have him on a list like this, but I struggle so much with recognizing him. Cody Pickett set the conference record for passing yards. I want to agree that Tui is #2, but that is 1 season in this arbitrary timeframe. A great season, our second or 3rd best in this timeframe, but that's his only one.
Being a QB gets you a lot of points.
Cobra Jack is super divisive. I could make an argument he struggled so bad in 2017-18 that you almost could not put him in the 25, but you also can't deny being the only QB on here to win two conference titles, led to a playoff berth, and his 2016 season was an all-time great Husky season.
Lockner hard as well. I think he should get a lot of points for coming back for 2010. As much as he had struggles, the program might be fucked royally if he doesn't do that and he made the plays to get the team back to life.
Both also get some credit for having bad coaching schemes. UW should have went a more straight read option with Locker (even though forcing him to be more a trad QB probably made him a lot of NFL money) and Browning needed better WRs after 2016, but Petersen kept a WR coach who wanted to hunt and fish over TBS (shoutout TSIO).
Stevens to me is easily UW's best TE of all-time, but he barely played in 2001 and you can't deny that ASJ was so fucking productive for three years and would have been a much bigger star if he played on good teams.
Tui gets massive love for essentially carrying UW to a conference title, Rose Bowl win, and Top 3 finish.
what’s the criteria? Biggest program impact?
Serious question… do we even end up in the B1G without his contributions?
I wouldn't have locker on the list. Amazing talent but meh production. Not his fault his coaches were morons. Don't twist.
consider to put on off the top of my head..
Rosengarten
Bbk
Victor (injury makes that one hard)
I get why he’s not on the list but I stand by the opinion that stanback would be a heisman finalist under different circumstances. A victim of terrible coaching/being a bit too early for the real emergence of dual threat QBs. If you put him in a chip kelly offense he puts up Mariota numbers (probably even better rushing numbers tbh)
No Ruperake Fuavai?
I would find a spot for BBK. He was productive on the best UW defenses in the past 25 years.
I think J. Polk needs to be on the list based on being a key part of the best passing game UW has ever seen. This spot would've gone to McMillan if he wasn't hurt for most of 2023.
I would probably take Trice and Foster off the list.
i think mason may be underrated. Great player on shitty defenses.
Trice came up in big moments last year in a very average defense. We may not beat Texas without him. Big sack in the ccg.
Fuavai should absolutely be on the list.
I think it's come up on here before but Stanback is pretty high on my list of Dwags who were in the wrong era and/or undercoached. If he doesn't get hurt in 2006 that team probably wins 9-10 games and gets Willingham an extension.
I should have put Saint Ruperake as an honorary member.
I'm not as nitpicky on BBK as DDY was but I think he didn't really put it together until like halfway through his senior season and it must have been a very weak field the year her won DPOY. Still my dwag though.
Polk and McMillan got consideration. Polk probably just not quite productive enough and McMillan got hurt in 2023.
I probably overrated Trice because I recently watched the 2023 P10CG and Sugar Bowl highlights and he made huge plays and seemed like our entire defense at times that season.
I think Foster was a possible all timer but just played on average teams. Put him on 2023 and he's a legend.
I'm partial to McMillian because if it's best players, nobody could stop him except DeBoer.
He scared defenses on a level that is really rare.
Someone start the 25 best transfers thread.
No Race Porter???
Agree that the Race Porter exclusion is egregious.
Byron Murphy hasn't been mentioned and all he did was ball out for 2 years while winning a Pac-12 title game with a Pick-6.
You're 100% right about BBK but the I think our first conference game was at Utah and he was a difference maker. That 3rd and short where he took on a bigger back/te and turned him backwards got the conversation going.
(Since you listed Dillon who was pre-2000)
The more I look at that list to replace guys with my list of exclusions (BBK, Rosengarten, Murphy, Polk/McMillan, Pickett, Race Porter), the only guy I definitely want to take off is…
Locker
I think it's pretty well established I'm a big McMillan guy. I was crying at some bar in Ballard when he got hurt against Michigan State the way I was when Locker got hurt against the Beav in 2007 and Coug fans were celebrating in the street ala Auburn fans when Bear Bryant died.
We've been through this before, but Murphy didn't play enough ball because of his injury and leaving after his redshirt Sophomore year to get on here. If we were just talking CBs I'd put Desmond Trufant on before him even though he kind of sucked his first three seasons.