Husky Extra Point Had an Extra Kick to It When Jaden Green Caught It
Extra-point kicks usually are so routine if not boring people often don't look up until they see the ball go through the uprights.
All right, raise your hand if you saw the University of Washington football team's conversion play following its third touchdown unfold from start to finish Saturday at Husky Stadium.
Didn't think so.
Admittedly, some of us in the press box were totally caught off guard by what transpired, as was the visiting Tulsa football team, which left town a 43-10 loser and red-faced over being fooled nonstop.
No photos or social-media of this clever little play had surfaced during or immediately following the game either.
Here's what happened, from reliable witness accounts: Husky snapper Jaden Green got over the ball, with all of his linemen lined up to his left and three other players setting up behind the line of scrimmage to his right, apparently making him eligible. It helped that this sturdy 5-foot-11, 214-pound athlete wore No. 89, too, typically a receiver's number.
The son of former Arizona State running back Gerald Green and a one-time high school receiver and rusher, the younger Green hiked the ball, slid out to the right flat and was unguarded when he pulled in the extra-point pass from Dylan Morris.
"It was a play we've worked on quite a bit in fall camp on and we wanted to get a chance when the right opportunity came to run it," UW coach Kalen DeBoer said. "The first chance was today and we took it."
Green's catch put the score at 22-3 with 3:55 left in the first half and had the Golden Hurricane seriously scratching their heads and the UW snapper celebrating privately.
"They made me eligible for a play in the formation we had," Green said. "I hiked it, one hand though."
DeBoer said his players couldn't wait to run what amounted to be the most devious play of several pulled off by the Huskies in Saturday's game.
"Guys were excited, they wanted to run that," the coach said.
Well, maybe not everyone was totally thrilled by it at all times, though all Huskies gladly accepted the end result.
"It was a numbers game," Husky linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio said with a smile. "Practicing against it was a pain in the butt, I will say that."
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