Geirean Hatchett will be able to play a seventh college season, while Deven Bryant appears to be portal bound.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- While the University of Washington put one in the team victory column at the LA Bowl, the Huskies broke even on roster changes while entering SoFi Stadium -- winning and losing players in the days leading up to kickoff against Boise State.
On Saturday night, UW coach Jedd Fisch confirmed after the 38-10 rout that starting senior right offensive guard Geirean Hatchett has received a waiver to play a seventh college football season and sophomore linebacker Deven Bryant is looking at entering the transfer portal. For the 6-foot-4, 310-pound Hatchett, one of two brothers on the team from Ferndale, Washington, he no doubt was reimbursed for playing just one game at Oklahoma in 2024 before he tore a biceps muscle and later transferred back to the UW. This Hatchett was the only offensive lineman who started all 13 games this season for the Huskies and he'll give his team four returning starters for 2026. "Geirean Hatchett got another year of eligibility, which is good," Fisch said after the game. "On Senior Night, he gave me a hug and said I'm going to do this twice." Hatchett has appeared in 39 games and started 18 for the UW and Oklahoma, all but the one outing with the Huskies. Bryant's departure was somewhat of a surprise because the 5-foot-11, 230-pound linebacker had been an integral part of the team, starting 10 games this season and hanging with the Huskies even after Kalen DeBoer's staff, which recruited him, left for Alabama. Yet Bryant no doubt saw he had been a place-holder until elite players in senior Jacob Manu and freshman Zaydrius Rainey-Sale were cleared from knee injuries and ready to play. Those two started the LA Bowl. Add to them junior Xe'ree Alexander, who came off the bench and was named LA Bowl defensive MVP and junior Buddah Al-Uqdah, who was the UW's top linebacker early on until suffering a season-ending knee injury.The UW offensive linemen together posed after the LA Bowl, with Geirean Hatchett recently getting a waiver to return. | Dave Sizer photo "I think Deven is making some decisions on what he's going to do," Fisch said. "We're going to wish him the absolute best if he's going to go into the portal. That's going to be his decision to make. We understand. "Our goal is to let guys go play. I think he feels there's a great opportunity to do that elsewhere."Bryant finished as the Huskies' third-highest tackler with 63, with a pair of tackles for loss and a pair of pass break-ups. He's the second Husky linebacker in two years from the L.A. area's St. John Bosco High School to leave for the portal, joining Khmori House, who played this past season for North Carolina, and year at the UW in 2024, before re-entering the portal last week.Dan 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.As Teams Opt Out of Bowls, Fisch Says He'd Never Do It
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