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UW Huskies redshirt freshman linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio earns scholarship

For a long time, Edefuan Ulofoshio was known by a different name.

“The only reason I was going by Jeffrey is because my kindergarten teacher would always butcher (Edefuan),” Washington’s redshirt freshman linebacker said with a gap-toothed grin last November. “My mom got sick of it and decided, ‘Call him Jeffrey. Call him Jeffrey.’ So when I went to high school and I would tell them what my real name is, I remember (former high school teammate and current Miami tight end) Brevin Jordan telling me, ‘Then why the hell do we call you Jeff?’

“So it was just more like, if I’m really going to be myself, I’ve got to go by my real name.