When three-star safety Rylon Dillard-Allen committed to Arizona State in February, it felt like a major loss for Jedd Fisch and the Washington Huskies coaching staff, which was very high on the 5-foot-11, 165-pound prospect from Mountain Pointe High School in Arizona.
Once he re-opened his recruitment, it quickly appeared as if the Huskies had the inside track to secure his commitment, even after Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide got involved. Safeties coach Vinnie Sunseri did a great job building on the relationship that cornerbacks coach John Richardson and assistant director of recruiting Armond Hawkins Jr. established while they were at Arizona.
“When they were at Arizona I was the No. 1 guy on their board,” Dillard-Allen told Sports Illustrated’s Andrew Nemec. “I was already pretty high on Washington, but those coaches left. So another staff I was close to came in and substituted their spot, so I wasn’t tripping about the situation.”
Nemec went on to follow in the footsteps of multiple 247Sports recruiting analysts, predicting that Dillard-Allen will choose the Huskies over his other three finalists of Alabama, Texas A&M, and UCLA when he announces his decision on Friday.
Dillard-Allen, who is ranked as the No. 5 player in Arizona and No. 36 safety in the nation by 247Sports should be on the verge of receiving his fourth star from the recruiting site thanks to his elite speed and ability to come downhill and attack ball carriers.
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