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Huskies Offer Grant Buckey, Who Hails from Football Family

The edge rusher's father played at Stanford and his brother is an incoming Cardinal freshman.

Dan Raley

Huskies Offer Grant Buckey, Who Hails from Football Family
Huskies Offer Grant Buckey, Who Hails from Football Family /

Grant Buckey, a California recruit with deep family football roots, revealed this weekend on social media that he has received a scholarship offer from the University of Washington.

A 6-foot-5, 265-pound edge rusher from Liberty High School in Bakersfield, California, he is the son of Jeff Buckey, a former Stanford and NFL offensive lineman with the Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers who carried a 6-foot-5, 295-pound frame. He was a seventh-round draft pick who played four pro seasons. 

The 3-star recruit is the brother of Zach Buckey, a freshman edge rusher who recently joined Stanford and measures 6-foot-5 and 262 pounds, and was a 3-star recruit.

Grant Buckey also is the grandson of the late Sheldon Harden, who was a 6-foot, 210-pound offensive lineman from Alturas, California, played for Santa Clara in 1939-42 and served as head football coach at Cal Poly in 1962-67.  He died in 2005 at 84.

From the Class of 2023, this Buckey has offers from Michigan, UNLV, San Jose State and the Huskies — but not Stanford, at least not yet — as his recruitment begins to take off.

The UW previously had decent success in signing players from Bakersfield, picking up an NFL-bound running back in Rashaan Shehee and current safety Cameron Williams, expected to be a starter this fall.  

This Buckey received his Washington and Michigan offers six days apart. Attending a Texas football camp, he was impressive with his hands and speed in working off the edge, leading to the accelerated interest in him.

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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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