The Washington Huskies coaching staff is kicking recruiting the 2025 class into high gear over the next few months, attempting to get a sizable head start before the season starts in the fall. Late May is shaping up to be a pivotal time for the first full class under head coach Jedd Fisch.
With numerous elite prospects visiting campus during that time, the potential to reel in an elite recruiting class that Washington has never seen is starting to look more and more like a possibility. One of these players that has locked in a visit is Texas wideout Andrew Marsh who is rated as the No. 66 player in the country.
Wide receiver is a complicated position to sort out in terms of incoming recruits, incumbent talent, and any potential future commits. Outside of Jeremiah Hunter, Giles Jackson, and Denzel Boston, there is little clarity on who will be the future of the position once the older players depart.
This means that bringing on more talent in the next recruiting class will be paramount to ensuring there are enough weapons for the offense to work with. Getting a player of Marsh’s caliber in the fold next season may give the Huskies a future star at a position with a high level of uncertainty.
Marsh is one of the players that every coaching staff in the country would love to have on their team. He is an effortless long strider who can build up speed very quickly even though it may look like he is not running at full capacity.
As a route runner, he has room for development, as he doesn’t run a full route tree yet and highlight plays come from improvisation that won’t always work at the next level. That said, he has an excellent ability to sink his hips and explode out of his routes, something that gives him a very high ceiling as a separator against college corners.
Speed and athleticism aren’t everything though. Marsh possesses elite grip strength to pull in tough catches in traffic or along the sideline. For a high school player in his junior year, he shows elite ball tracking and body control to help bail his quarterback out of bad throws.
Pairing him with a quarterback in college who can consistently put it on or near his frame (think Dermaricus Davis or Demond Williams) could provide elite returns in the future.
While far from a sure thing, getting Marsh in purple and gold would be a huge win for the coaching staff. Being able to go into Texas and pull a top 10 player in the state would help Fisch further his reputation as an elite recruiter and would bring an elite player in the program.