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Senior Neel Salukhe says he has had a dream role as a UW walk-on. He mainly helps on the scout team as a receiver. “You’re going against players that are potentially going to make it to the NFL,” he says.

His ambitions on the football field are narrow in scope, limited by a lack of size and speed, and limited to anonymous scout-team grunt work during the week.

When it comes to his ambitions outside of football, he is not yielding to any limitations.

Chances are, you don’t know much about Neel Salukhe. Maybe you’ve never heard of Washington’s walk-on wide receiver.