Jacob Sirmon had a plan.
It was Dec. 13, 2015, and Sirmon — who had just wrapped up his sophomore season at Bothell High School — was ready to make a commitment. It didn’t matter that his signing day was still more than two years out. It didn’t matter that Washington’s next verbal commit in the 2018 class — his cousin, linebacker Jackson Sirmon — wouldn’t make that pledge until more than a year later. It didn’t matter that, as a strong-armed four-star quarterback, more scholarship offers were inevitable.
Jacob knew where he wanted to go. So why wait to commit to Washington?