The UW had a commitment from him briefly in January before the coaching change.
Within hours of the Huskies kicking off in the CFP national championship game against Michigan, the state's top 2025 high school football player, linebacker Zaydrius Rainey-Sale, committed to the University of Washington football program.
However, the Huskies lost the game, followed by coach Kalen DeBoer and Rainey-Sale's commitment, all in the space of five days, with the 6-foot-3, 225-pound recruit from Bethel High School in Spanaway, Washington, publicly pulling back within 60 minutes of the announcement that DeBoer had taken the Alabama job.
Consider the first time around, Rainey-Sale had narrowed his choices to Florida State, Miami, Oregon Penn State and the UW. The attraction to Rainey-Sale is his flat-out speed for a big hitter that obviously has shown up in all of his football camp auditions. For the Huskies, he's also that symbolic No. 1 local recruit if they can land him once and for all.
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