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Huskies Add Second Rusher Among Flurry of Weekend Commits

Adam Mohammed was pledged to Arizona before following Jedd Fisch's staff north.

Dan Raley

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New coach Jedd Fisch was asked about absolutes for his University of Washington football team and he didn't hesitate in coming up with the first one. 

If you can't run the football, you can't compete in the Big Ten.

Pad on pad.

Tough-guy stuff.

So it should come as no surprise that on Sunday, among a splurge of newly committed players pledging their services to him, Fisch welcomed a pair of rushers to his rearranging roster, beginning with Wildcats leading rusher Jonah Coleman and followed by Adam Mohammed.

The 5-foot-9, 225-pound Coleman from Southern California is a short, tough little runner capable of going for 179 yards at Colorado and 145 at USC, while the sleeker 6-foot, 195-pound Mohammed is a high school player from Glendale, Arizona, who can generate high-volume stuff, such as career totals of 5,180 yards and 113 touchdowns rushing. 

His touchdowns were an Arizona state record in 5A football and one off the overall standard set by Bijan Robinson, now in the NFL after playing at Texas.

Mohammed follows Fisch's staff from Arizona to Washington largely for one reason. 

“I’m most excited about getting developed by an NFL coaching staff,” he said.

The Huskies are getting a player whose quickness makes him a playmaker all over the field. He returned six kicks for touchdowns. He blocked five punts and and a field goal. He averaged eight yards per carry and 40 yards per return. He had a pick-6 and returned a fumble for a score.

A 3-star recruit, Mohammed also was recruited by Arizona, Army, Boston College, California, Colorado State, Iowa State, Montana State, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, San Diego State and Utah State — becoming the UW's first recruited high-school runner in a couple of seasons.

Yet the Huskies clearly have a need for running backs after starter and second-team All-Pac-12 selection Dillon Johnson entered his name in the NFL draft, freshman Tybo Rogers turned to the transfer portal and well-worn senior Richard Newton finished up his time in Montlake.

The UW will return senior Cam Davis coming back from a knee injury that made him miss all of last season, junior Will Nixon who's been a reliable fill-in and junior Sam Adams II who dealt with a shoulder injury that made him unavailable at times last fall.

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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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