Washington Huskies football: Mock Draft Consensus on Levi Onwuzurike and Joe Tryon 1.0
We’re back with another 2021 Mock Draft Consensus. PNWS lets you know where former Washington Huskies stars Levi Onwuzurike, and Joe Tryon will go in the NFL Draft.
The NFL draft is an important time for Washington Huskies football. It always hurts to lose good players, but the Dawgs and their fans can celebrate their alumni headed to play at the highest level of professional football.
Putting players in the NFL is some of the best advertising Washington Huskies Head Coach Jimmy Lake has when courting recruits to Seattle. Last year a pair of Huskies were selected in the NFL Draft, quarterback Jacob Eason (fourth round, 122nd overall, Indianapolis) and center Nick Harris (fifth round, 160th overall, Cleveland). All totaled 34 Washington Huskies alumni were either on NFL rosters or practice squads in 2020.
Due to COVID-19, this year’s pre-draft process is much different. Instead of the standard combine where NFL hopefuls spend three days in Indianapolis, all player measurements and evaluations occur at individual college pro days. Washington’s pro day is Tuesday, March 30. That’s the same date as Ohio State and Texas A&M have their pro days, so UW players won’t have scouts’ undivided attention.
This year at least four Huskies will be drafted. Pacific Northwest Sports audited 28 different mock drafts to see where the quartet might go in the draft, including ESPN, USA Today, NFL, CBS Sports, Walter Football, and more. Fourteen of the mocks went two rounds; five of them covered Rounds 1-5.
In this edition, we focus on the defensive front seven duo of Levi Onwuzurike and Joe Tryon. Both were important pieces of the Huskies defense in 2019 but opted out of playing last season to focus on the NFL Draft. Was it a good strategy? Let’s see what the mock drafters think of their chances.