Ahmed: 'We Worked on Breaking Tackles'

Huskies running back concentrated on being elusive in practice drills

After going the distance on a 60-yard scoring run at Oregon State, Huskies running back Salvon Ahmed turned humble, crediting his offensive linemen for giving him a hole to run through.

Of course, there was a lot more to it than that.

Ahmed broke a tackle and nimbly kept his feet once he got through heavy traffic--and he was gone.

The junior said the UW backs hadn't done a good enough job of getting free after taking on contact in previous games, so they worked on drills, used specific tools, that emphasized that.

Ahmed, who earlier broke an 89-yarder against USC, also was generous in his praise of the return of fellow back Richard Newton, and even put up with a Seahawks combo comparison.

Check out this video and hear what the speedster had to say.

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Published Nov 12, 2019

DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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