Huskies Make PWO Offer to Speedy Bellevue Cornerback

Ishaan Daniels was a ballboy for the Wolverines when Budda Baker was the headliner.

Dan Raley | Jan 16, 2023

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The University of Washington football team apparently can't have enough cornerbacks, especially after they were running on empty most of this past season.

On Monday, the Husky coaching staff made a preferred walk-on offer to Ishaan Daniels, a speedy defender and Class of 2023 recruit from Bellevue High School in suburban Seattle.

The Wolverines' two-time All-State selection now holds offers from Arizona, plus Army Air Force and Ivy League and smaller schools. He also has a preferred walk-on offer from Washington State. He doesn't have long to make up his mind whether to move ahead with or without a scholarship. The next recruiting signing date is February 1.

A two-way player, the 5-foot-11, 165-pound Daniels helped one-time perennial state-champion Bellevue win its first 3A title in eight years in 2021 and into the semifinals this past season. He was named All-State in a secondary that included Rainier Beach's Caleb Preley, already a UW signee.

Daniels has grown up around the Bellevue program, serving as a ballboy when Budda Baker was the Wolverines' headliner a decade ago before Baker played for the UW and now in the NFL.

"It was cool to just watch him ball out," Daniels said in 2021. "It inspires me to keep grinding like him and maybe I can follow in his footsteps."

While a little on the slender side, which might account for his limited number of FBS suitors, he brings flat-out speed to the equation, even piling up 189 yards and 3 touchdowns early in the season in a game against Lake Stevens.

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Published Jan 16, 2023

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.