The DuPont, Wash., native and redshirt junior outside linebacker could be primed for a long-awaited eruption this fall.
Jared Hilbers is not a small human.
He just looked like one on Friday.
During a team drill inside Husky Stadium, the 6-foot-7, 313-pound right tackle settled into his pass set, and was promptly unseated by a passing train.
More literally, the redshirt junior was physically manhandled by outside linebacker Benning Potoa’e, who dispatched Hilbers and then emphatically shoved senior quarterback Jake Browning for a sack.
Herein lies the prickly conundrum when it comes to Potoa’e: at 6-3 and 277 pounds, the redshirt junior is a physical monstrosity.