We knew that Washington’s defense was beat up going into Saturday night but it wasn’t until near kickoff that we learned the full extent. Edefuan Ulofoshio and Ryan Bowman are both now officially out for the season. Safeties Alex Cook, Cam Williams, and Asa Turner weren’t able to start. That meant we had to call up reinforcements and they involved a few standout performances from players we haven’t seen a lot of this season.
The biggest standout performance came from ILB Carson Bruener who somewhat surprisingly started over Daniel Heimuli with Ulofoshio officially gone for the year. The redshirt freshman finished with 13 tackles plus a strip sack which ended up being recovered by Sav’ell Smalls and set UW’s offense up in position for a field goal.