So far this year Washington has had every potential draftee with eligibility remaining announce their return for 2023. The lone player as of UW’s bowl game against Texas who hadn’t made a decision yet was WR Rome Odunze. Well that wait is now over as Odunze has announced on Twitter that he too will return for next season rather than enter the NFL Draft.
It was clear in the preseason that a breakout year may be coming for Odunze. He caught 41 balls for 415 yards and 4 TDs as a sophomore in 2021 but many of those came on little bubble screens where he was forced to break a tackle to gain any kind of yardage.