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Huskies Offer JC Free Safety Who Commits in Same Day

Demario King accepts UW scholarship proposal five and a half hours after posting that he received it.
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Huskies Offer JC Free Safety Who Commits in Same Day
Huskies Offer JC Free Safety Who Commits in Same Day

That didn't take long.

At lunchtime on Wednesday, free safety Demario King of Cerritos College posted on social media that he had a scholarship offer from the University of Washington. 

By dinner, the 6-foot-3, 215-pound defensive back had committed, all in the space of about five and a half hours. 

What's for dessert?

King held offers from Arizona, Arizona State and the Huskies.

The Huskies will add him to a position area in which seven different players started at the two safety spots, and six are expected to return. 

With his large frame, King would be bigger than most of them. He's the same height as Asa Turner, only 10 pounds heavier. He's got an inch on Dominique Hampton, but he's 5 pounds lighter. 

King will have two seasons of eligibility remaining after playing the 2019 season for the Cerritos Falcons, having the 2020 schedule wiped out by the pandemic and playing his second season after a two-year gap.

Recently named second-team all-conference, King finished with 96 tackles, 7 pass break-ups and a forced fumble for a 6-5 team.

In 2019, he accumulated 39 tackles, an interception and a pass defend.

A noted speedster for someone so big, King scored 25 touchdowns, including 4 on kickoff returns, for Los Alamitos High School, with both his junior college and secondary school located not far from Anaheim.

New Husky coach Kalen DeBoer signed five players last week and said he expected to have roughly 15 newcomers, depending on roster movement. He said to not necessarily assume they would all be high school recruits. 

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DAN RALEY

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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