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Huskies Offer Hawaiian DL Well Off the Beaten Recruiting Path

Manamo'ui Muti is a 6-foot-6, 250-pound prospect from Wahiawa on Oahu.

Dan Raley

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Manamo'ui Muti has bare-bones football recruiting profiles, no highlight reels, a limited social-media presence and almost no personal photos of him posted anywhere.

He hails from the Hawaiian town of Wahiawa, population 18,658, on the island of Oahu, some 20 miles north of Honolulu traveling up State Route 80. 

Wahiawa is home to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific, most likely a restricted area, someplace where the public isn't welcome.

Muti is a 6-foot-6, 250-pound defensive lineman, not to mention volleyball player, from an 0-8-1 Leilehua High School football team and the class of 2025, and no longer much of a secret in a secluded place.

On Wednesday, Muti revealed the University of Washington, Washington State, Utah, Arizona, San Jose State and Hawaii have offered him scholarships, posting them all at once. 

So how did the Huskies find this growing kid from a bad football team well out of Honolulu's metropolitan footprint?

Answer: Inoke Breckterfield and Muti's older brothers.

Breckterfield, of course, is the UW defensive-line coach and a native Hawaiian, so he's supposed to know his way around the island hole-in-the-wall treasure troves for football talent.

This recruit also is the younger brother of Netane Muti, a 6-foot-3, 308-pound offensive guard who's been a 17-game starter over the past two seasons for the Las Vegas Raiders after playing for Fresno State — where Husky coach Kalen DeBoer was his Bulldogs offensive coordinator in 2017 and 2018.

Manamo'ui Muti has yet another brother, Ma'ake, who was a starting 6-foot, 280-pound nose guard for Azusa Pacific before the NCAA Division II program shut down in 2020.

Manamo'ui is the kind of college football prospect who makes recruiters really earn their salaries and turns them into private investigators. 

Apparently this big kid, who has two seasons of high school ball left to play, showed up for a camp somewhere and everyone saw him, and hence all the offers began rolling in at once.

We finally found a decent photo of him on a teammate's Twitter account — he's the tall guy on the right, towering above his Leilehua teammates, as he rightfully should be at 6-foot-6. At least we think that's him. We couldn't find another image to make a comparison.

Manamoui Muti, far right, has a UW offer.
Manamo'ui Muti, far right, has a UW scholarship offer.  / Tagoa

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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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