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Former Husky LB Heimuli On the Move Again, Leaves Arizona for Portal

The one-time 4-star recruit spent four seasons in Montlake.
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Former Husky LB Heimuli On the Move Again, Leaves Arizona for Portal
Former Husky LB Heimuli On the Move Again, Leaves Arizona for Portal

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Daniel Heimuli, former University of Washington linebacker, is looking for yet another school after leaving Arizona for the transfer portal.

On Friday, the 6-foot, 225-pound junior from East Palo Alto, California, posted his intentions on social media after just one season with the Wildcats, who are 9-3 and headed to the Alamo Bowl to face Oklahoma.

This past season, Heimuli began the season as a linebacker starter but was replaced after two games following a 31-24 overtime loss to Mississippi State and future UW quarterback Will Rogers, who completed 13 of 17 passes for 162 yards and 3 touchdowns that day.

Heimuli started against the Huskies in the fifth game of the season, and had 6 tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss, in a 31-24 home loss to his old team.

He ended up playing in 11 games, starting four, and finished with 15 tackles, including 2 TFLs, and recovered a fumble. 

Heimuli spent four seasons at the UW, appearing in 21 games and starting 2 as a replacement for an injured Edefuan Ulofoshio.

He was a 4-star recruit from the Bay Area and one of the Huskies' highest rated prospects for the Class of 2019, picking the UW over Alabama, yet he never quite lived up to all the hype.

Heimuli left the UW a year ago after drawing a suspension from Kalen DeBoer's coaching staff for a late-night University District bar altercation following a game. 

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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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