Yesterday we came at you with the potential options for impact true freshman. That’s an easy category to define. It’s anyone who hasn’t been enrolled in college previous to this winter. Today we traditionally would be looking at impact redshirt freshman. This too is normally easy to define. Someone who is in their second year in the program but redshirted the previous season.
The problem is that Washington only played 4 games last year so even without the eligibility mulligan every true freshman from the previous year would have counted under the pre-existing NCAA redshirt rules. What to do with players like Rome Odunze or Sav’ell Smalls who were clear rotation pieces as true freshmen last year and pretty clearly would’ve burned their redshirt if they’d had the opportunity to do so?