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Huskies Offer Speedy Scottsdale Wide Receiver

Plas Johnson, who doubles as a track man, has 9 football scholarship proposals.
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Huskies Offer Speedy Scottsdale Wide Receiver
Huskies Offer Speedy Scottsdale Wide Receiver

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Unlike a lot of recruits, Plas Johnson pretty much is going through this process alone. He does not hail from a high school football powerhouse filled with prospects. His coach recently departed.

The 6-foot-1, 165-pound wide receiver enjoyed an 88-catch season even while his Chaparral High team in Scottsdale, Arizona, finished 3-7, with the often outmanned Firebirds losing their final four games of the season.

On top of that, Johnson's football coach, Brent Barnes, who directed Chaparral to an Arizona 6A state championship in 2020, resigned in February to take another job in Oklahoma.

Still, Johnson, a 3-star recruit in the Class of 2024, continues on this football journey, steadily picking up scholarship offers.

On Monday, he received one from Kalen DeBoer's University of Washington staff, giving him nine in all. Others pursuing him are Washington State, Oregon State, Utah State, UNLV, Nevada, Arizona, Northern Arizona and Colorado State.

His first name, Plas, is defined as a small pond, or a still body of water. Yet he's been anything but stationary. 

Doubling as a track man, Johnson relies on speed to get where he's going, whether it be on a high school football field or through the recruiting process. 

"He's able to put his foot in the ground and get someplace quick," said Barnes, his departed coach.

Johnson has clocked top 100- and 200-meter times of 11.1 and 22.3 seconds.

This past football season, he got loose for 8 touchdown passes and 1,157 yards of receiving yards, plus he returned a pair of kickoffs for scores.

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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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