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Husky OL Recruit De-Commits from Minnesota

The 2025 Portland prospect could flip to Jedd Fisch's team.

Dan Raley

Zac Stascausky, committed to Minnesota, has a UW offer.
Zac Stascausky, committed to Minnesota, has a UW offer. / UM

Zac Stascausky, a Portland offensive tackle who received a late offer from the University of Washington football team and visited the campus over the weekend, on Tuesday de-committed from Minnesota, with a flip to the Huskies now a good bet.

The 6-foot-6, 290-pound Stascausky from 6A state-champion Central Catholic High School had been pledged to the Gophers since June 9.

However, the UW recently made a strong push for the 3-star prospect, who holds 13 scholarship offers, Stascausky made it known a UW offer carried a lot of weight with him.

"The Washington offer means a lot to me because I love the Pacifc Northwest," Stascausky told Andrew Nemec of Sports Illustrated's high school recruiting network. "As far as my commitment to Minnesota, I am still committed, but I will be taking a trip to Seattle to meet the new coaching staff."

The Huskies currently have 24 oral commitments for the Class of 2025 with eight 4-star players among the, all contributing to a recruiting class ranked in the top 20 by. most online sites.

Stascausky has had no shortage of college offers -- hearing from Arizona State, Boise State, BYU, California, Oregon State, UCLA and WSU besides Minnesota -- after sharing in Central Catholic's extra-dominant run through the Oregon playoffs, with the Rams beating Tualtin 49-21 in the state championship game to finish 13-0.

With Stascausky operating at left tackle, Central piled up a playoff-record 639 yards of total offense in the title outing.

The Rams, in fact, had just one close encounter all season, beating West Linn and UW tight-end commit Baron Naone by a meager 12-7 in the state semis.

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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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