Whenever Washington Huskies head coach Jedd Fisch has had a microphone in front of him throughout the offseason, he’s made it his top priority to hype up sophomore quarterback Demond Williams Jr. ahead of his first full season as the starter.
That tradition continued when he made an appearance on the Jim Rome Show, beginning by referencing his impressive performance in the Sun Bowl, where Williams completed 80 percent of his passes for 374 yards and 4 touchdowns, adding 48 rushing yards and a score on the ground.
“I think that’s going to be his floor,” the ever-confident Fisch said. “I think this kid has so much potential to be an elite player. He’s working exceptionally hard, and obviously, he has to start a whole season. It’s a completely new universe when you’re the starting quarterback, but I really feel like we’ve got a spot for him in the long term of really good quarterbacks, and he’s only a sophomore, he’s only 19 years old, so there’s a ton of potential for him to get better every single week.”
The Huskies have done a good job investing around Williams in the offseason, retaining Preseason All-Americans at running back and wide receiver in Jonah Coleman and Denzel Boston, while upgrading the offensive line through both high school recruiting and the transfer portal.
Combined with a talented young group of running backs that could help him find more space in the ground game, Fisch added that Williams is a unique talent compared to the long line of signal callers that he’s coached throughout his time in college football and the NFL.
“His uniqueness is that his running ability is so much different than some of the other quarterbacks that I’ve been around,” he said. “I feel like for most of my career it’s been the pocket passer who can move versus the elite athlete who can throw, and Demond’s kind of right there in the middle.”
He likes to play from the pocket, and he likes to be able to make plays in the pocket, but he recognizes that he has sub-4.4 speed and he’s just elusive back there with an ability to get to an edge, and he’s hard to tackle. So, we’re really creating an offense around Demond where we’re doing a lot of research, and we’ve changed a lot of the core things we’ve done in the past, but we’ve also continued to let him thrive in our play-action game that has really become our staple.”
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