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Huskies Offer Bay Area Edge Rusher With Movie Star Looks

Devin Hyde comes from the school that recently sent Soane Faasolo, Daniel Heimuli and Noa Ngalu to the UW.
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Huskies Offer Bay Area Edge Rusher With Movie Star Looks
Huskies Offer Bay Area Edge Rusher With Movie Star Looks

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If football doesn't work out, Devin Hyde might consider heading 400 miles south and pursuing a film career. He has that Heath Ledger look going on.

However, the gridiron game currently appears to hold many more possibilities for the strapping 6-foot-5, 225-pound edge rusher who just completed his sophomore year at Menlo-Atherton High School in California's Bay Area.

On Saturday, Hyde received  a scholarship offer from the University of Washington, his second after hearing first from Nevada.

If his high school sounds at all familiar, Kalen DeBoer's recruiters signed 6-foot-8, 280-pound offensive lineman Soane Faasolo from Menlo-Atherton and he arrives in Montlake as a freshman this weekend.

Also, former coach Chris Petersen signed a pair of players from Menlo-Atherton in linebacker Daniel Heimuli and defensive tackle Noa Ngalu, only to have them leave before their eligibility was up after DeBoer's staff took over.

Heimuli, who was suspended following a post-game altercation at a University District pub, transferred to Arizona, and Ngalu, who got buried on the depth chart, returned home to play this past season for two-year College of San Mateo.

Now comes Hyde with his exemplary size and rugged swagger if not movie-star looks. For a 5-6 Bears team, he finished his 10th-grade season with 83 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, a sack and a fumble recovery. 

Hyde also seems extremely motivated in the weight room, as indicated by his recent Twitter postings of his big-bar offseason workouts. 

While football appears to be a perfect outlet for him, Menlo-Atherton High has been known to produce plenty of mainstream entertainers, counting Fleetwood Mac musicians Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham as former students, plus Grateful Dead founder and lead singer Bob Weir and actress Courtney Thorne-Smith among its alums.

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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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