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UW Huskies 2020 offensive primer: Who will step up at quarterback and running back?

Welcome to The Great Unknown.

For Washington football fans, this must be an equal-parts terrifying and exhilarating offseason, filled to the gills with offensive upheaval. Jacob Eason is gone. Salvon Ahmed is gone. Hunter Bryant is gone. Trey Adams’ somehow-always-wet brown mane is moving on to the NFL, and Bush Hamdan is a freaking offensive assistant at Missouri. Nick Harris’ “We don’t lose to Cougs” undershirt is probably packed in a suitcase somewhere, headed out of Seattle.

This is a new era for offensive football — and what, exactly, does that entail? On 950 AM KJR last week, head coach Jimmy Lake said that “we don’t want to run horizontal.