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What Else is New: UW Offers Another Arizona Edge Rusher

Deshawn Warner this week received a scholarship bid from the Huskies, his 17th overall.
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What Else is New: UW Offers Another Arizona Edge Rusher
What Else is New: UW Offers Another Arizona Edge Rusher

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Thirty-seven freeway miles separate the Sandra Day O'Connor and Desert Edge high schools in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and University of Washington football recruiters are hoping they can convince Deshawn Warner that's not much of a gap at all.

Husky edge rusher and All-America candidate Bralen Trice attended O'Connor High, which is located north of the downtown corridor.

The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Warner plays the same position for Desert Edge, in suburban Goodyear east of the city, and he now has a Husky scholarship offer among 17 he's welcomed so far as a member of the Class of 2024.

With different coaches, the Huskies in recent years seem determined to stockpile disruptive edge rushers cultivated from the desert. 

Chris Petersen's staff landed the heavily recruited Trice in 2019 and Kalen DeBoer's coaches in late 2021 signed Lance "Showtime" Holtzclaw from Mesa's Desert Ridge High after Jimmy Lake's staff gained a commitment from the latter.

Warner fits all of the particulars the UW seeks in someone coming off the corner with his large frame and big defensive production numbers piled up in two seasons.

Last fall for an 8-4 playoff team nicknamed the Scorpions, he finished with 53 tackles, including 12 for lost yards and 9 sacks. As a sophomore in 2021, Warner had 40 tackles, including 9 TFLs and 8 sacks. He's been busy each fall.

The Huskies, however, have plenty of recruiting competition as they try to secure the services of Warner, who also holds offers from Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, Arizona, Arizona State, Iowa State and Washington State.

Trice, however, can share with Warner how it's just 1,400 miles and a nonstop flight from the Phoenix suburbs to Montlake, where desert edge rushers seemingly come to thrive as college players. 

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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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