Jan. 25—Not sure what answer I'd get if I asked a Magic 8 Ball about how the Huskies would fare next season, but I do know their coach has been behind a metaphorical 8 ball since he arrived. It was hard enough for Jedd Fisch to replace a man who just took a team to college football's national championship game, but to come in when he did left him bound as players bolted. You see, this past ...

SEATTLE – Washington will have an entirely new offensive line in 2024.

SEATTLE – The Huskies have their starting quarterback.

SEATTLE – Washington coach Jedd Fisch entered the weekend with exactly one scholarship quarterback: four-star early enrollee freshman Dermaricus Davis.

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SEATTLE – As he closed his address Thursday to a sold-out room inside the W Bellevue Hotel, Washington Athletic Director Troy Dannen smiled and said, “I really appreciate the opportunity to come here. It is not the agenda I thought we’d be talking about when I agreed to do this in November.”

Forty-four players appeared on the two-deep depth chart for Washington’s national championship game against Michigan on Jan. 8. In the nine days since, 18 of them have either run out of eligibility, declared for the NFL draft or medically retired. Eleven have entered the transfer portal (none of which have thus far committed to a separate school). Fifteen remain on UW’s active roster, including just two returning starters — senior linebacker Alphonzo Tuputala and junior cornerback Elijah Jackson.

His answers landed well, but can he land the whales?

It took Washington months to lose its head coach but only days to find a replacement.

SEATTLE – As the Washington Huskies move closer to finalizing a replacement for recently departed head coach Kalen DeBoer, the roster that successor will inherit continues to lose talent to the transfer portal and recruit decommits.

SEATTLE – Over the course of a wild weekend, the face of Washington football stunningly shifted, with Kalen DeBoer departing for Alabama Friday and the Huskies settling on his successor two days later.