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Coach Mays continues to have success on the recruiting trail, landing a commitment from safety Jaden Walk-Green. Walk-Green becomes the second safety commit of the class joining Isala Aisa Wily-Ava. The Huskies continue to build their recruiting classes in Southern California, this time going to Centennial (Corona, CA).
The Recruitment: The schools that were most heavily involved with Walk-Green included Arizona St., Oregon, UCLA, Vanderbilt, and Washington. While UW was one of the first to offer among those schools, they were not viewed as one of the schools pushing the hardest or rumored to be the favorite. Oregon was widely viewed as a major player for him after a successful unofficial visit, but the Ducks shifted their focus to a couple of other prospects which allowed other schools to win over Walk-Green. Coach Mays has proved to be a force of the recruiting trail and he made the most of that opening. The Huskies surged and were viewed as the new leader for him even though he had never set foot on campus. UCLA made a big push and made UW sweat a little, but after a successful official visit to Seattle he knew it was where he wanted to be.
Recruiting Ranking: While two of the major recruiting sites have him rated as a three-star, but Rivals is very bullish on him and have him rated as the 166th best prospect in the 2027 class.
Scouting Report: It can feel like every safety prospect that is under 6’ tall, especially one that the Huskies are interested in, seems to draw comparisons to Budda Baker. Ignoring all the success that Baker had in college and the pros, Baker was a phenomenal HS prospect that sets a high bar that most prospects have a hard time meeting. While Walk-Green may not have the hard hitting ability that Budda had, his instincts, tackling ability, and ball skills make it easy to see why he would draw the comparison.
Roster Impact: RDA is likely to take the role of the starting FS this season, but once he moves on to the pros in a year or two there is no established heir apparent. JWG will be deeply involved with that competition and brings a strong talent that will continue to elevate a DB room that has been stacking talent since Jedd Fisch arrived.
Overall Thoughts: As I said, the Huskies continue to stack talent and that is never a bad thing. Beyond the physical traits and instincts, JWG is productive. Extremely productive. In his junior season he racked up 125 tackles, 10 INTs (5 returned as pick sixes), 1 PBU, 1 FR, 1 blocked FG, and 1 PR TD. He clearly has a nose for the ball and that is what you want to see in your DB targets.
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