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Idaho Tight End Narrows Choices to 3, UW Included

Kenyon Sadiq from Idaho Falls caught 78 passes as a junior.
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Idaho Tight End Narrows Choices to 3, UW Included
Idaho Tight End Narrows Choices to 3, UW Included

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He comes from a town called Idaho Falls, but there's nothing on the downside to Kenyon Sadiq. He's only going up.

He's a 6-foot-3, 220-pound tight end and rated as a 4-star prospect and Idaho's No. 1 recruit.

He comes off an impressive junior season at Skyline High School in which he caught 78 passes for 1,162 yards and 19 touchdowns.

Those are receivers' numbers.

Again, there's no one quite like this guy in probably a 10-state radius.

On Friday, Sadiq posted on social media that he had narrowed his college choices from eight to three — to Iowa State, Michigan and Washington — with no commit date included.

Gone from his list are Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State and West Virginia.

Idaho Falls is a southeastern Idaho city of 64,000 coming out of the Tetons and Yellowstone Park. Sadiq is one of its natural wonders. 

He provides an elite blend of size, speed and athleticism, as shown in the Twitter video, while leaping tall opponents in a single bound. 

He visited the UW during its biggest recruiting weekend of the summer in late June.  

The Huskies had been targeting Sadiq and Arizona prospect Jackson Bowers, but the latter recently chose BYU. At 6-foot-5 and 225 pounds, Bowers a little more size than his Idaho counterpart but nowhere near the numbers, hauling in 47 catches for 861 yards and 5 TDs.

The UW has 19 players committed so far for the Class of 2023.

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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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