It might be worse next year. Eason will go, which means a new QB again, they lose Bryant and a couple quality offensive linemen too
The Huskies are also getting rid of the worst 2 wideouts to wear purple and gold in the history of the program. The UW WR core is going to be SO much better. Baccellia and Fuller cost UW multiple games this year, hell probably last year too. 0 separation, stones for hands, no ability to make a play in space. Next year they'll have Nacua , Bynum, Ty Jones, Marquis Spiker and Austin Osborne... Nacua was a stud before he had a small fracture in his foot, Bynum smoked the Cougs, Ty Jones is a 6'4 matchup advantage that drew a PI against the Cougs in his first game back from injury, Spiker and Osborne are former high 4-star recruits from Cali. Not to mention Hunter Bryant who smoked the Cougs too.
You also have to take into account the fact that Richard Newton was a freshman tailback who also spent most of the year injured, when he's healthy he's a load and UW was without him for a good number of games. He's only going to get way better.
I'm also not sold on Eason leaving, he left some stuff to prove this season and he's a projected 2nd or 3rd rounder... If he has an extremely good senior year, which he very well could, he would cement himself as a high 1st round pick next year... and next year he'll actually be throwing the ball to people with talent.
The O-line is losing Trey Adams, who sadly looked like a shell of himself this year. He clearly lost a stop... was once projected as a top-10 pick and is likely a 4th rounder at this point. Nick Harris feels like a big loss, but they already were without him for a few games this year where Matteo Mele played extremely well in his absence... plus Mele has more talent. And they are also losing Jared Hilbers who is just another body. UW has recruited probably the best in their program history over the last few years on the OL and should have guys ready to step in and perform just as well if not better.
UW also probably had the worst linebackers playing in the history of their program as well. Every Husky fan is thrilled that Manu and Wellington will never see the field again. Ulofoshio got in the rotation late in the season and was an aberration... plus they have a couple really talented RS freshman in Heimuli and Calvert expected to come and be miles better.
Yeah the Huskies lose Bryant, but he was also a ghost for the majority of the second half of the season. Missed a lot of tackles for the Huskies and didn't provide any big play making ability like he showed as an underclassmen. You'll have to assume Williams and Turner and turner take over the safety roles and both were quite solid as true freshman.
+ UW is returning the vast majority of a defense that took a giant leap forward at the end of the season. Nobody in Husky land is worried about losing guys like Bronson, Potoae, or Bowman who shit the bed as seniors... you're going to see 2x top 50 overall recruits in Jacob Bandes and Faatui Tuitele get more DI reps and everyone else on the line who played was either a sophomore or RS frosh... so they'll just be a year older.
Expecting UW to be "worse" next year is a pipe dream.
I don't know why I write this stuff... I know it's going to be met with, "Oh yeah! well **** you! Let us live in fantasy land"... but you know what, a little bit of education never hurts to change the nasty side effects of total ignorance.
