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Huskies Have No QBs on Roster After Davis Enters Transfer Portal

The freshman early enrollee spent just a few weeks on campus.

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The University of Washington football team had the makings of being a quarterback destination at one point, even as recent as two weeks ago.

On Monday, however, freshman signee and early enrollee Dermaricus Davis revealed he will enter the transfer portal — leaving no scholarship quarterbacks currently on the Husky roster.

In fact, the 6-foot-5, 187-pound Davis becomes the eighth quarterback connected to the program to exit since the Huskies' appearance two weeks ago in the College Football Playoff national championship game.

Starter Michael Penix Jr. graduated and back-up Dylan Morris transferred to James Madison after the game.

Freshman phenom Austin Mack entered the transfer portal and is now committed to Alabama and ex-Husky coach Kalen DeBoer. 

Mississippi State transfer Will Rogers is in the transfer portal and in limbo, still deciding if he wants to give new coach Jedd Fisch a chance.

San Diego State transfer Will Haskell re-entered the portal.

Walk-on and JC quarterback Alex Johnson is in the portal. 

Jackson Kollock, a 2025 commit, de-committed at the prospect of a new Husky coach.

And now Davis.

He and Mack were positioned to compete for the Husky starting job in 2025 once Rogers came in as one-year hired gun and stopgap for Penix.

"Really, really high ceiling," said former UW offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb of Davis. "And he's got the right demeanor. Great kid. Super low ego. He believes he has a ton of work to do."

Nicknamed "Marmar," Davis accompanied the Huskies to the national championship game in Houston. Seated on the sidelines, he wore No. 16.

He joined the Huskies after a senior season at Etiwanda High School in Southern California in which he completed 191 passes in 275 attempts for 2,618 yards and 25 touchdowns.

 A 4-star recruit, Davis was previously recruited by Fisch's staff at Arizona, but that wasn't enough to keep him in Montlake.

He leaves the day after the new coaching staff received a commitment from quarterback Demond Williams, an Arizona native who was with Fisch in Tucson and was another 4-star player.

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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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