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Huskies Invite Idaho Long Snapper Jace Eastlick to Join Them

Couer d'Alene recruit receives walk-on offer.
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Huskies Invite Idaho Long Snapper Jace Eastlick to Join Them
Huskies Invite Idaho Long Snapper Jace Eastlick to Join Them

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Jace Eastlick, an Idaho football recruit who lists himself as the No. 1 long snapper in the West, on Monday received a preferred walk-on invitation from the University of Washington.

The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Eastlick, a class of 2024 prospect, hails from Couer d'Alene High School and holds a scholarship offer from Idaho, according to his 247 Sports profile. Utah and Washington State also have showed interest in him.

Making the rounds of the snapping events, he comes off a camp win in Seattle this past spring and finishes among the leaders at most competitions. 

Typically, the Huskies haven't offered scholarships to long snappers coming out of high school, that is until former coach Jimmy Lake changed things up and signed current snapper Jaden Green from Gilbert, Arizona, in 2020.

Green has been the Husky snapper for the past three years and has two seasons of eligibility remaining should he use his pandemic freebie. 

Behind him are a pair of walk-ons in sophomore Alex Froelich and redshirt freshman Caleb Johnston, both Californians.

Eastlick grades out high with Rubio Long Snapping, which works with prospective West Coast players and tries to place them with college programs.

"This kid is simply becoming a machine," his Rubio profile said. "Extremely smooth, extremely accurate and he's got a college-level speed right now on the ball. As he continues to put on size and strength, the more dominant he becomes in his class."

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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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