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Hank, UW loses Topou, Feeney, and Littleton up front, and those guys were key to that defense.  And a year ago, their defense lost four players who went the top 44 in the NFL draft--DE Ki'kaha, CB Macus Peters, NT Danny Shelton,  and LB Shaq Richardson.  Their defense is going to step back.  It's not as if their current DBs (two first team all cons) can play much better, and the pressure in UW's front seven made a major difference to them.

Plus UW didn't have an offense last year, and lose their top three wide receivers--and Browning isn't Rosen, Falk, or even Chryst.

They are tough in Seattle, but we're a much better team.

Overall, UW next year is an interesting question. No doubt the conventional wisdom is that they will be quite strong.

Their bowl game depth chart is available on p.8 of their bowl guide:
http://www.gohuskies.com/pdf9/4246907.pd...M_ID=30200

On offense they have two senior starters (C-Tufunga and WR-Mickens) and one senior co-starter (TE-Perkins).
Perkins was honorable mention All Pac-12.
On defense they have four senior starters (DT-Tupou, BUCK-Feeney, LB-Littleton, S-Clay).
Tupou and Feeney were second team All Pac-12. Littleton honorable mention.
There only seem to be about two other seniors on their two-deep.

Those are light losses for a college team. Where they do lose a considerable amount is on the defensive front seven. So, the question is the quality of their replacements - which I simply don't know.

The few times I saw Browning he looked pretty good, though the sample size wasn't adequate. Interesting to compare Browning and Rosen statistically this year.

Browning: 210-335 for 2671 yds, 8.0 yds/att, 16 TD, 10 INT, PER=139.45
Rosen:  266-477 for 3350 yds, 7.5 yds/att, 20 TD, 9 INT, PER=133.19
[Note - Browning missed one game - vs Stanford so we didn't see him]

I'd give the edge to Browning, perhaps moreso considering the quality of targets each QB had. It may be true that Rosen has more potential, but who gets further next year is not so clear.
And at the moment I'd have more confidence in Browning than Chryst - merely because he's had the opportunity to show something.

The UW offense has some work to do, but they have a lot returning: a QB coming off a strong frosh year, four starters on the OL, a very promising RB heading into his second year (Gaskin).

Sarkisian's recruiting was okay, I would give Petersen the benefit of the doubt for now, and while I certainly wouldn't yet put UW as a favourite in the North, probably would put them at third and challenging for more.

Personally, I am more skeptical of what we'll see from WSU.

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Hank, UW loses Topou, Feeney, and Littleton up front, and those guys were key to that defense.  And a year ago, their defense lost four players who went the top 44 in the NFL draft--DE Ki'kaha, CB Macus Peters, NT Danny Shelton,  and LB Shaq Richardson.  Their defense is going to step back.  It's not as if their current DBs (two first team all cons) can play much better, and the pressure in UW's front seven made a major difference to them.

Plus UW didn't have an offense last year, and lose their top three wide receivers--and Browning isn't Rosen, Falk, or even Chryst.

They are tough in Seattle, but we're a much better team.

Overall, UW next year is an interesting question. No doubt the conventional wisdom is that they will be quite strong.

Their bowl game depth chart is available on p.8 of their bowl guide:
http://www.gohuskies.com/pdf9/4246907.pd...M_ID=30200

On offense they have two senior starters (C-Tufunga and WR-Mickens) and one senior co-starter (TE-Perkins).
Perkins was honorable mention All Pac-12.
On defense they have four senior starters (DT-Tupou, BUCK-Feeney, LB-Littleton, S-Clay).
Tupou and Feeney were second team All Pac-12. Littleton honorable mention.
There only seem to be about two other seniors on their two-deep.

Those are light losses for a college team. Where they do lose a considerable amount is on the defensive front seven. So, the question is the quality of their replacements - which I simply don't know.

The few times I saw Browning he looked pretty good, though the sample size wasn't adequate. Interesting to compare Browning and Rosen statistically this year.

Browning: 210-335 for 2671 yds, 8.0 yds/att, 16 TD, 10 INT, PER=139.45
Rosen:  266-477 for 3350 yds, 7.5 yds/att, 20 TD, 9 INT, PER=133.19
[Note - Browning missed one game - vs Stanford so we didn't see him]

I'd give the edge to Browning, perhaps moreso considering the quality of targets each QB had. It may be true that Rosen has more potential, but who gets further next year is not so clear.
And at the moment I'd have more confidence in Browning than Chryst - merely because he's had the opportunity to show something.

The UW offense has some work to do, but they have a lot returning: a QB coming off a strong frosh year, four starters on the OL, a very promising RB heading into his second year (Gaskin).

Sarkisian's recruiting was okay, I would give Petersen the benefit of the doubt for now, and while I certainly wouldn't yet put UW as a favourite in the North, probably would put them at third and challenging for more.

Personally, I am more skeptical of what we'll see from WSU.