This season will be running back Richard Newton’s final year with the Washington football program and it holds some uncertainty as to what his role with the team will be like in 2023.
Newton has had a rollercoaster of a journey while with the Huskies. He was a three-star recruit in 2018 out of Palmdale, California who redshirted his first year and ultimately became the primary backup to Salvon Ahmed in 2019, rushing for 498 yards (4.3 average) and 10 TD.
It was a great debut to a promising career that fell off track due to two challenging seasons under Jimmy Lake.