Caleb Smith from Birmingham will come play for Jedd Fisch's staff.
It was as if Caleb Smith and Kalen DeBoer passed each other somewhere over the middle of the country, moving in different directions.
On Friday, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound edge rusher from Parker High School in Birmingham, Alabama, committed to the Huskies, choosing Jedd Fisch's program over Purdue after receiving offers from Arkansas, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Missouri, Oklahoma State and others.Smith will become the second Alabama-raised player to pull on a Huskies uniform, joining Cam Bright, a Montgomery product who was a starting UW linebacker in 2022 after transferring from Pittsburgh.
DeBoer's staff apparently didn't pursue Smith, who plays just 55 miles from Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama.A 4-star recruit for the Class of 2025, Smith seemed destined to play for the UW all along once the big changing change in January took place. Nineteen days after DeBoer took the Alabama job, Fisch's newly installed staff offered the big Southern kid a scholarship and kept the recruiting pressure on thereafter.
He comes off a junior season in which his Parker High team went 12-2, winning its first five games before losing 22-21 to Pleasant Grove, and then going on a seven-game win streak before the Thundering Herd suffered a 38-13 defeat to Clay-Chalkville in the first round of the 6A Alabama state playoffs.
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