There are a lot of former UCLA Bruins football players suiting up to begin the 2024 NFL season. However, one of them is undrafted free agent Colson Yankoff. The recent Bruins player made the roster for the Washington Commanders after an impressive offseason and training camp.
After Yankoff made the roster, Commanders head coach Dan Quin revealed why he has two undrafted free agents that survived the cut:
“I’d say both of them really have the propensity to absolutely go for it,” Quinn said per Ben Standig of The Athletic. “You feel their intensity, you feel their speed when they play, both on special teams and on offense and defense, respectively. At the end of it, when you’re really trying to establish an identity that you’ve heard me use that word before, I think those examples come back up. The speed, the physicality, the effort, the straining, those are things that are Commander-style plays and I thought those two really represented that.”
It’s quite the honor and well-deserved for Yankoff.