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Huskies Return to Danville, Good Source of Talent, Offer Running Back

Julian McMahan hails from school that sent Jake Haener, Peyton Henry and Corey Luciano to UW.
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Huskies Return to Danville, Good Source of Talent, Offer Running Back
Huskies Return to Danville, Good Source of Talent, Offer Running Back

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Previous University of Washington football coaching staffs found their way to Monte Vista High School in the city of Danville, California, located in the San Ramon Valley, and the trips were well worthwhile.

Apparently, they left directions behind for Kalen DeBoer's staff to follow.

After pulling Jake Haener, Peyton Henry and Corey Luciano (by way of JC) out of that school, the Huskies on Friday offered a running back from there, Julian McMahan, in the class of 2025.

McMahan is an already well-developed 6-foot-3, 197-pound runner coming off a sophomore season in which he was able to launch his football career and not much more.

For a 2-8 Mustangs team, McMahan played in four games last fall and rushed 55 times for 202 yards and a touchdown, and caught 12 balls for 120 yards.

With his size intriguing enough to draw plenty of interest, he has other scholarship offers from Arizona, California, Nevada, San Jose State and UNLV, plus he took a recent unofficial visit to UCLA.

Danville, which has been that good source of UW talent, at least with the ones the program has been able to hang onto (see Haener), and is a city of 43,000 and found 20 miles east of Oakland and Berkeley, just down Interstate 680. 

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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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