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Huskies Offer SoCal Linebacker Who Does Everything

Mark Iheanachor ran into his brother on the recruiting circuit.
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Huskies Offer SoCal Linebacker Who Does Everything
Huskies Offer SoCal Linebacker Who Does Everything

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A physical and high-motor player, Mark Iheanachor seems motivated enough to show what he can do as a 2025 football recruit from Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California. 

He already has plenty of video highlight footage of him tackling people all over the field, splitting out wide and catching passes, and lining up in the backfield and taking handoffs.

A linebacker by trade, Iheanachor is more than athletic enough to perform all of those other football responsibilities. 

Now if anyone thinks he can drop down in a stance on the offensive line and open up holes, that's not him — that would be his older and much bigger brother Max Iheanachor.

They sort of shadowed each other this winter on the recruiting trail, often visiting the same schools for official or unofficial visits. 

For example, Arizona State hosted the 6-foot-2, 215-pound Mark Iheanachor on Dec. 16 and five days later the school announced it had signed the 6-foot-5, 319-pound Max Iheanachor from East Los Angeles College.

Both brothers also have been recruited by BYU, California and Kansas, too.

For now, Mark Iheanachor is a free agent with two seasons of high school football left too play, holding 8 offers, including one sent his way last week by the University of Washington.

He impressed everyone as a serious-minded player for a 6-7 Narbonne team and in the subsequent camp circuit, emerging as one of the best players out of something called the Linebacker Zoo.

"The grit comes from being scared of being average," Iheanachor wrote on Twitter.

He's anything but mundane. He finished his sophomore season with 67 tackles, 3 interceptions, 2 pass break-ups and 2 forced fumbles. Add to that 23 rushes for 129 yards and a score, plus 15 receptions for 258 yards and two TDs, with a long catch of 52 yards.

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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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