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Washington hires John Donovan as offensive coordinator

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SEATTLE (AP) — New Washington coach Jimmy Lake made his first major coaching hire Friday, adding John Donovan as the Huskies' new offensive coordinator.

It's not as splashy a hire as some Washington fans were hoping for after Bush Hamdan was fired. Donovan has five years of experience as a college offensive coordinator — three at Vanderbilt and two at Penn State — but he spent the past four seasons working on the offensive staff of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Donovan will also be Washington's quarterbacks coach.

“Coach Donovan has a great deal of experience at both the college and NFL levels, learning from a lot of great offensive minds about coaching the kind of aggressive, pro-style offense we want to play here at Washington," Lake said in a statement.