These seven true freshmen could help the Huskies this season.
In 2014, the Huskies played eight true freshmen. In 2015, they played 10 of them.
As the program has accumulated greater depth — particularly on defense — the Huskies could benefit from utilizing a redshirt season for more newcomers this year.
So stacked is the defensive secondary, for example, that the likes of Isaiah Gilchrist and Kentrell Love — both high-profile cornerback signees in the Class of 2016 — spent most of fall camp working with the third-string defense. In the past two years, both almost surely would have been pressed into action early.