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Willingham leaning toward redshirt freshman Locker at QB
SEATTLE -- Let the expectations flow. Go Jake Go!
The long-awaited collegiate debut of heralded home-state quarterback Jake Locker will likely come in Washington 's season opener Aug. 31 at Syracuse.
Tyrone Willingham came as close as a coach can in April to naming the teenage redshirt freshman as the replacement for graduated passer-runner Isaiah Stanback.
"If we had to play a game today, Jake Locker would be our quarterback," Willingham said Thursday, four days before the coach begins his third and most promising set of spring practices at Washington.
That promise chiefly comes from Locker, who turns 19 in June.
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