The University of Washington secondary was expected to get picked on and it did at times, but it was sturdy enough to enable the Huskies to take a 39-28 victory on Saturday night over Michigan State.This time, the UW
Mike Mitchell Jersey found itself down a pair starters with safety Asa Turner getting injured during the week and cornerback Jordan Perryman still unable to come back from suffering leg injury in the opener. That was two-fifths of the defensive backfield mi sing against a marquee opponent.Yet it seems as if every week the Kalen DeBoer coaching staff resurrects a player cast aside by the previous regime.This time it was Kamren Fabiculanan, moving over from his hybrid Husky spot to replace Turner, who has an unspecified ailment and will mi s next week's Pac-12 opener against Stanford, as well.The player known as Kam Fab and Julius Irvin were the UW's starting safeties a year ago against Montana, but the latter lost his
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