Thanks to some persistent urging from his mom, Telecia Williams, tailback Dwayne Washington recently relented to interview requests. He still would prefer to avoid cameras, but the interviews, he admitted, aren’t so bad. “I’m getting more comfortable,” he said.
For more than a year, for reasons unknown, Dwayne Washington had turned down all interview requests. As his profile and production on the field increased, so too did the mystery surrounding his avoidance of local media. Interviewing the football itself, it seemed, would be an easier task than interviewing the guy who most often carried it into the end zone for the Huskies.