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UW’s Travis Feeney selected by Pittsburgh Steelers in sixth round of NFL draft

Travis Feeney became the first Washington Husky selected in the 2016 NFL draft when the Pittsburgh Steelers selected him in the sixth round (No. 220 overall) on Saturday afternoon.

Feeney, a 6-foot-4, 230-pound outside linebacker, was an all-Pac-12 second-team selection in 2015, when he he had a team-best eight sacks and 17.5 tackles for loss, ranking third in the Pac-12 in both.

Draft projections had Feeney going anywhere from the second to the seventh round.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter where you’re drafted; it just matters that you get on the team and show what you got,” Feeney said earlier this week.