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Huskies Offer SoCal Edge Rusher with Limited Track Record

Ed'Mari Binion has had an interesting high school journey so far.
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Huskies Offer SoCal Edge Rusher with Limited Track Record
Huskies Offer SoCal Edge Rusher with Limited Track Record

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Kalen DeBoer made the comment last season that his University of Washington football coaching staff has its own way of grading players and it tends to make competitors offer a double-take at some of the assessments.

Take South Dakota quarterback Lincoln Kienholz, who wasn't a big deal for top Power 5 recruiters and then he was, committed to the UW and then pilfered away by Ohio State.

Put Ed'Mari Binion in that same unsung category, as well, if not more so.

Last Thursday, the Huskies offered a scholarship to this 6-foot-6, 250-pound edge rusher and newcomer to Millikan High School In Long Beach, California — giving him four options, along with Colorado State, Montana State and UNLV, not exactly a college football murderer's row. 

One recruiting website, 247 Sports, described Binion as raw.

Max Preps listed him as appearing in one early season 2022 game for an 8-2 St. Pius Academy team in Downey, California, and coming up with a lone tackle for loss and a fumble recovery. Presumably, he was injured because he didn't get on the field during several lopsided outcomes.

The same site listed Binion as playing basketball last year for St. Pius and the season before for Bishop Kearney High in Rochester, New York.

All of the recruiting orgs offer the same highlight reel of him appearing in that lone football game.

The Huskies consider him a prospect worthy of a scholarship whereas only lower-level schools currently agree. With him in a UW publicity shot, he's obviously come in for a look at Montlake. 

No doubt Ohio State and others will get on board with Binion before the recruiting dust settles.

 

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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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