Muhammad Turns to the Dark Side and Ideas to Move to Oregon
When Muhammad announced on Saturday that he was moving to the bitter rival, it became official. If he thought that was terrible, wait till he dons a Ducks suit and plays against his old team in November.
Muhammad regards it as merely business. After three seasons, he transferred from Oklahoma State to the Huskies a year ago since they had everyone returning, which assured him of a highly successful team that would give his covering skills the most exposure.
He leaves for Eugene because, as Muhammad just stated, he didn’t want that type of upheaval and the UW has basically no one returning.
No matter how outraged some Husky supporters become, there’s no doubting that this affable athlete who goes by the names of two American sports giants, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Muhammad Ali is a superb football player.
Muhammad started 15 games for national runner-up UW, racking up 16 pass break-ups, and was named to the Pac-12 second team, so it’s surprising that he doesn’t think he’s NFL ready immediately.
Rather, in an effort to further enhance his chances of playing professional football, he will play a fifth college season for his third collegiate squad.
In the storied neighborhood rivalry, he joins former Seattle defensive tackle Taki Taimani, who played his last season as a college student with the Ducks, as the only other Montlake football player to switch sides in recent memory.
Muhammad participated in the 36-33 and 34-31 wins over Oregon, describing the first encounter as one of the best football matches he had ever played in.”This was a playoff game, my big brother told me,” he said to the reporters following the contest at Husky Stadium. “That was the kind of atmosphere it gave off and we showed up.”
Muhammad recorded two pass breakups and three tackles that October day in Seattle.After he and the Huskies defeated the Ducks in Las Vegas a month and a half later, he was content with a single pass deflection in the Pac-12 title game.
Telling media outlets that he had the opportunity to play for his former UW coach Kalen DeBoer at Alabama or join his home state Texas Longhorns, where his cousin Malik Muhammad plays cornerback, was equally shocking. He decided to join Oregon instead of both.Muhammad ought to start removing such profiles on social media immediately.