The sophomore running back had personalized his connection to the UW.
If the University of Washington football team was playing the 2026 season opener against Washington State this weekend -- yes, everything begins with the Apple Cup next fall -- the Husky Stadium public-address announcer would offer the following:That's Carr, as in the 5-foot-11, 190-pound redshirt freshman from Riverside, California, who has all of four career carries for 14 yards, with three coming in the LA Bowl, and could use some seasoning at the college level.
That's not Adam Mohammed, who was fully expected to take his turn in the Husky backfield for the next season or two, with the UW fully invested in him, and then let Carr and others have their shot at the lead role.This just wasn't the plan for Jedd Fisch's staffers who had to be stung somewhat by the departure of Mohammed, their great recruiting find, their carefully groomed replacement for the graduating Jonah Coleman and their potential big-numbers back. Yet the 6-foot, 220-pound sophomore reportedly cut against the grain and ran through the hole to the transfer portal. In a college game with really no allegiances anymore, which threatens to turn off a lot of its dedicated fan base nationwide at some point -- after all, what if Mohammed winds up at Oregon, which he had great success against? -- because people aren't sure who to root for anymore. College football always has been a game of tradition, not a smaller version of the more cold-hearted and professional NFL.Mohammed is a nice, young kid, always polite, sometimes a little quirky with his big black glasses and his multi-hued dyed hair, which sometimes included a gold base with a purple W painted on his noggin.Providing there's no change of heart, Mohammed has gone off to join a new football program. Off to entertain another fan base. Off to collect a reasonable financial incentive and turn that Bo Jackson body of his into an NFL career.His departure just seems totally different from all of others who are leaving Montlake -- now 10 overall and counting -- because he had patiently waited for Coleman to finish up before supposedly taking over. Because he seemed to have a longstanding relationship with Scottie Graham, the Arizona and now UW running-back coach, who admittedly tried to hide his interest in this kid from Glendale, Arizona, so others wouldn't find out what he knew.Yet Mohammad must have an opportunity to collect a much bigger financial incentive elsewhere, which continues to dilute everyone's sense of college football reality, and go play for an established blue blood, not a program trying to become one. He also talked about coming from a big family of college athletes -- with one brother is a running back playing at Minot State, another brother a basketball player at S.F. Austin and yet another walked on for football at Arizona -- but none of them had the potential earnings power that he does. Maybe he's going elsewhere to pay for everyone else.In Montlake, he'll be replaced by one or more of any number of running backs on the roster who include Carr, redshirted freshman Julian McMahan and incoming freshmen Brian Bonner and Ansu Sanoe, with Bonner the Huskies' highest-rated running back recruit ever coming in. Someone such as Bonner is so fast and elusive he might come in and immediately make people forget about everyone else who has carried the football recently in Montlake, including the guy with purple and gold head. Yet Mohammed is a lot like that high school boyfriend or girlfriend who suddenly breaks up with you right before the prom. After you had ordered a tux or bought the dress.PublishedDan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.
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