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UW Has Chance With Recruit Because He's a Seahawks Fan

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Osani Gayles is a wide receiver from the IMG Academy in Florida, by way of California, who this week has pared his college football choices to Alabama, Notre Dame, Stanford, Tennessee and Washington.

That's a lot of blue bloods competing for his services, plus Stanford, some 80 miles from his parents' home in Stockton, would have a geographical edge.

So what could give the Huskies a chance to bring this 4-star pass-catcher to Seattle?

"We grew up big Seahawks fans and I remember watching that team with Marshawn and the Legion of Boom," Gayles, whose father Eddie and mother Angela originally are from Seattle, told Whoa Sports. "I think I was around 6. Then I started playing football and I was hooked."

As Jedd Fisch reminds his players, Be a Pro.…

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