While the University of Washington football team was conducting its first spring scrimmage notably shy of running backs, the school on Friday officially announced the addition of transfers Wayne Taulapapa and Will Nixon to the program.They're Ben Gamel Jersey backs from Virginia and Nebraska, respectively, with Nixon doubling as a wide receiver.Considering the health of the Husky runners with five of the seven scholarship runners dealing with an injury or a long-term illne sthey can't get to Seattle soon enough.New coach Kalen DeBoer mentioned how the Huskies couldn't put on a conventional spring game this month because of the player shortages at running back and linebacker.The earliest the Mike Moustakas Jersey UW will see Taulapapa and Nixon in a Husky uniform is at fall camp, getting a spread offense tutorial on the fly from DeBoer and his staff.They'll report in June with the incoming freshmen players. For now, they've got their paperwork in, signed to national letters of intent.Taulapapa, a 5-foot-9, 200-pound grad transfer and a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, played four seasons for Virginia and started 27 of the 40 games in which he was Christian Yelich Jersey used. He finished with career totals of 266 carries for 1,192 yards rushing and 19 touchdowns, and 28 receptions for 150 yards and a score.Scroll to ContinueA team captain for the ACC team, he has just a single season of eligibility remaining.Nixon, a 5-foot-11, 185-pounder from Waco, Texas, spent the past two seasons at Nebraska, sitting out one with an Brandon Woodruff Jersey injury and appearing in three games this past fall. He caught a solitary pa s for the Big Ten entry. He has four seasons of eligibility remaining.At Midway High, Nixon doubled up as a runner and a pa s-catcher and in 2019 he generated 2,087 yards of total offense, 1,837 by rushing, and finished with 29 touchdowns. He is the son of Jeff Nixon, the Carolina Panthers Glenn Robinson Jersey running-backs coach and a former rusher for West Virginia and Penn State.
