A mere 6 feet, 221-pounds — hardly prototypical for a middle linebacker, but about 20 pounds bigger than when he arrived as an unheralded freshman — BBK is becoming a BMOC.
He is undersized and probably still underappreciated, but that latter distinction is changing rapidly.
Ben Burr-Kirven, the Huskies’ hyphenated and hyperkinetic senior linebacker, is making himself un-ignorable — even without the telltale flowing hair and blond beard that made him stand out last season.
On Saturday, in Washington’s 27-20 victory over Arizona State at Husky Stadium, he was unrelenting.
In other words, business as usual.