Washington's June 19–21 OV Weekend: Wins, Losses, and a Walk-Green Commitment
Jaden Walk-Green pledges to the Huskies as Washington loses Zion White, Troy Mailo, and Lincoln Mageo before the weekend even started — but still hosts a meaningful offensive line-focused visit group.
Washington’s final June official visit weekend was its most volatile.
By the time the weekend began, three of the visitors Washington had scheduled — 4-star WR Zion White, 3-star EDGE Troy Mailo, and 4-star OL Lincoln Mageo — were no-shows, with White committing to Cal on Friday, Mailo committing to Stanford the same day, and Mageo heavily expected to land at Michigan.
But the Huskies also got good news last weekend. 3-star safety Jaden Walk-Green, who had taken his official visit to Washington two weeks earlier and set a June 20 commitment date, picked the Huskies — landing his commitment right in the middle of the weekend. And the visitors who did make the trip kept Washington in real position in the trenches, where a few of the staff’s biggest remaining targets have decisions coming within the next two weeks.
Here’s how it played out.
The headline: Jaden Walk-Green commits
3-star safety Jaden Walk-Green (Corona Centennial – CA) made his Washington commitment official on June 20, choosing the Huskies after taking his official visit to Montlake on June 5 and setting his decision date for the middle of last weekend.
Walk-Green came away from his June 5 visit telling SeaTown Sports that what stood out was “how elite the coaching staff is and the facilities they have” — and while he left Montlake without committing, the decision had clearly already started turning Washington’s way. Two weeks later, it landed.
Walk-Green is a genuinely productive high-schooler — 125 tackles and 10 interceptions as a junior, five of those picks returned for touchdowns — and his pledge gives Washington’s secondary a meaningful piece alongside fellow 2027 safety commit Isala Wily-Ava. After losing Gavin Williams to USC and Malakai Taufoou to Oregon earlier in the cycle, Walk-Green is the win defensive coordinator Ryan Walters and safeties coach Taylor Mays needed.
The Friday losses
The harder side of the ledger landed on Friday, before the weekend’s visit window even opened.
4-star WR Zion White (Mililani – HI) committed to Cal. For Washington, the Huskies already have four WR commits with potentially a fifth on the way coming from White’s former IMG Academy teammate 4-star Osani Gayles.
3-star EDGE Troy Mailo (Mullen – CO) committed to Stanford the same day. Mailo, too, had set Washington as his final visit, with a Van Horn–Kaufusi relationship that had built steadily over months. The Huskies already have a commitment from 4-star EDGE Chaz Gray and remain among 3-star EDGE Jag Ioane’s top schools.
And 4-star OL Lincoln Mageo (Oceanside – CA), heavily expected to commit to Michigan, did not make his scheduled visit to Montlake. Mageo had been a constant presence at UW recruiting events going back to Dawghouse Weekend in March, but it looks like the Wolverines separated themselves from the rest of the schools he was considering.
The offensive line: still in play
The OL haul was supposed to be the weekend’s identity, and even without Mageo, Washington’s two biggest remaining targets at the position made the trip.
4-star OL Gecova Doyal (Puyallup – WA), the top-rated offensive lineman in the state, took his official visit with a July 1 decision date now looming. The Pacific Northwest tug-of-war with Oregon continues — Doyal visited Eugene on June 5 — and getting him on campus for his closing official is exactly the position Washington wanted to be in. Whether it converts depends on the next ten days.
4-star OL Dajohn Yarborough (Basha – AZ), a 6-foot-5, 340-pound tackle, originally from Minnesota, has been on Washington’s board for months, and his official visit was the staff’s last in-person impression before he announces.
The legacy pick: Tye Kennedy
Tye Kennedy (Mountain View – AZ), the son of Washington legend Lincoln Kennedy, came away from his official visit with the Huskies in strong position. Asked where Washington stood for him coming out of the weekend, Kennedy told SeaTown Sports that the Huskies “will be a top choice” — and pointed to a connection that runs deeper than a typical recruitment. “I feel like I’ve had some sort of a bond with the Huskies, and it’s a special place for sure,” he said.
That bond has a name attached to it. Tye’s father, Lincoln Kennedy, was an All-American at Washington, a first-round NFL draft pick, and a College Football Hall of Famer who anchored the Huskies’ offensive line from 1989 to 1992. When Washington offered Tye last fall, he posted about the chance to “continue my father’s legacy” at UW. The visit, by his own account, did nothing to weaken that pull. Kennedy decides July 1 from a group that includes Washington, Cal, Arizona State, Michigan, Utah, and Minnesota.
The closers on campus
Three committed prospects took their lock-in official visits this weekend, and the one with the loudest voice on the offensive line situation was the lineman already in the class.
Committed 3-star OL Reis Russell (Valor Christian – CO) came away from his lock-in OV energized about the weekend’s stakes. “It was awesome. I had such a great time,” Russell told SeaTown Sports. “This was a huge weekend for this class, and I hope to add to this class in the trenches.” Russell was reaffirmed in his own decision too, pointing — as so many of Washington’s committed voices have this cycle — to the staff. “This staff is the reason why [I committed to UW],” he said. “Great people with a big common goal.”
4-star WR Tre Moore (Pflugerville Weiss – TX), the second-highest ranked commit in Washington’s 2027 class took his official visit and 3-star CB Maurice Williams (Timberline – WA), one of the first commits of this entire cycle back in December, also took his official visit.
What I’m watching
Walk-Green is a meaningful in-state secondary win that answers two earlier safety losses, and the Yarborough and Doyal recruitments are still genuinely alive heading into late June. Washington is in a strong position with Tye Kennedy, with a July 1 decision and a legacy connection that’s not going away.
But Washington also lost three uncommitted visitors before the weekend even started, two of them to other Power 4 programs. Recruiting at this level always has both sides of the ledger, and the staff’s job over the next two weeks is to make sure the trenches haul Switzer and Brewster have been chasing all cycle yields commitments.