No one can say that the Huskies have been particularly smart or intentional about true freshman 5-star QB Sam Huard’s usage this season. I’ll run through it step-by-step before we get to Saturday’s game.
It was widely known coming into this season that the plan was ideally to redshirt Huard by having him play 4 or fewer games. When Washington got up by 35+ points against Arkansas State it made sense to get Huard into the game to get some reps in garbage time and see what he could do. Ultimately he played 11 offensive snaps in that game going 2/5 for 31 yards.