THE Washington Huskies have moved quickly in recruiting four-star running back Jeremy Adeyanju.
Less than two months After initially extending an offer to 6-foot, 215-pound high school product Sandra Day O’Connor in Phoenix, Ariz., Jedd Fisch’s coaching staff picked up a pair of crystal balls from Rivals’ Greg Biggins and Steve Wiltfong to acquire the services of the rising running back, who was previously expected to commit to the USC Trojans.
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Adeyanju, who is ranked as the No. 255 overall prospect and No. 17 running back in the 2027 class by Rivals, has enjoyed a major rise on the national stage since coach Scottie Graham and Huskies have expanded their offering. He now has 19 offers, with Arizona, Arizona State, California, Florida, Michigan, Utah and Wisconsin among the programs seeking his services, but that has been the subject of a battle between Fisch and Lincoln Riley for several weeks.
Adeyanju was the only running back on campus for Washington’s Junior Day weekend, March 7-8, for an unofficial visit, and followed that up with an unofficial trip to Los Angeles to attend a Trojans spring practice before the projections for him to pick the Huskies arrived Saturday morning.
If the crystal balls are to come to fruition, Adeyanju has all the makings to be a reliable ball carrier at the college level. He has a superb frame that looks like it could withstand the rigors of the Big Ten and is surprisingly explosive for his size with impressive speed, as his film shows him constantly running through wide-open holes to go the distance.
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Adeyanju would be the third offensive commitment to join Washington’s 2027 class, alongside four-star receivers Braylon Pope and Zerek Sidney, and the second Arizona prospect in the cycle to pledge his services to Fisch’s staff, with Sidney as the other.
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