Washington senior Benning Potoa’e talks about switching from outside linebacker to defensive lineman for his senior season with the Huskies. By
Last December, just before Washington left for the Rose Bowl, Benning Potoa’e stood in a hallway underneath Husky Stadium and talked about his future.
In his early years with the Huskies, Potoa’e said he was “running around like a chicken with its head cut off.” Overwhelmed by the amount of information he was receiving, he often played panicked and worried.
But then the game started to slow down. He developed physically, but perhaps more importantly, he evolved mentally.