Jedd Fisch has harped on the importance moving to the Big Ten has had for Washington’s establishment as a national brand since he arrived on Montlake this winter. The results have shown early on in Fisch’s recruiting: the Huskies’ 2025 class represents 11 different states across their 27 commitments.
Those efforts spilled over into 2026 on Tuesday, as Pensacola, Florida native Zion Legree included Washington in his top 8 schools.
Legree, a three-star athlete in the 247Sports Composite rankings, also named Georgia, Mississippi, Miami, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, and Mississippi State to his list.
Legree is expected to play wide receiver at the college level. He picked up an offer from Washington in May, a few weeks after the Pine Forest athlete released an initial top 8 that included the likes of Auburn, Notre Dame, and Kentucky. Mississippi State is the only school of those initial eight that made Legree’s list this time around.
The junior has run a verified 4.35-second 40-yard dash and also stars on the track for Pine Forest. Washington was among the first batch of Power 4 schools to reach out to him, as his recruitment began to pick up over the summer after a strong showing at a Florida State camp in June.
Fisch has shown that his system is wide receiver friendly, as Denzel Boston and Giles Jackson were the only duo in the country to enter last week’s contest with at least 400 receiving yards apiece. After a big win against Michigan, it appears recruits like Legree are taking notice, even from the other side of the country.