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Huskies Offer Scholarship to 14-Year-Old Hearing All Sorts of Hype

Uno Williams is just finishing the 8th grade and recruiting followers have gone gaga.
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Huskies Offer Scholarship to 14-Year-Old Hearing All Sorts of Hype
Huskies Offer Scholarship to 14-Year-Old Hearing All Sorts of Hype

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Delontay "Uno" Williams has no high school game highlight video. No photos from the alma mater. No recruiting profile with the big sites.

What he has is a tall and rangy 14-year-old body that has the recruitniks dialed up into hyperbole-spouting frenzy, promising the world for this kid.

Williams just might be a special player someday, but his reputation is way out in front of him as this 2027 prospect prepares to enter Mount Miguel High School next fall in San Diego's Spring Valley neighborhood.

Taking no chances, however, Kalen DeBoer's coaching staff on Wednesday offered a scholarship to this recommended 6-foot-1, 180-pound wide receiver, giving him his second option after San Jose State sent one his way in April. 

So far Williams has only 7-on-7 event performances to sell himself and apparently he's doing a decent job of it, running past players and hauling down passes in a crowd.

"Trust the process," he wrote on Twitter. "If you can ball, they will find you."

Williams interestingly posted video of himself working out on a beach, catching one pass near the condos and another near the surf.

He'll report to a high school football program coming off a 4-7 record that answers to the Matadors and likely be part of the rebuild.

Williams' UW scholarship offer came from Husky receivers coach JaMarcus Shephard, who might be a college head coach somewhere else when 2027 rolls around. 

This San Diego-area recruit has four high school seasons to play and no doubt a whole bunch of unbridled hype coming his way.

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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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