By midseason last year, Huskies fans wondered if Keith Price was going to get up.

Once he did, they wondered if he would go on.

Once he did, you wondered how much damage his knees suffered during his first spectacular year as Washington’s quarterback.

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The biggest local surprise of the NFL draft turned out to be Washington running back Chris Polk.

It was assumed if Polk became a surprise during the league’s selection extravaganza, it would be because he went sooner than the expected third- or fourth-round range.

Instead, Polk’s name never was called. Several reports say he signed a free agent deal with the Philadelphia Eagles following the draft’s disappointment.

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The Arizona Cardinals selected Washington left tackle Senio Kelemete in the fifth round Saturday with the 151st overall pick.

Kelemete was the second Washington player selected in the draft’s final day. Defensive tackle Alameda Ta’amu was picked in the fourth round,  109th overall, by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers found out quickly that Alameda Ta’amu won’t lack confidence after they selected him with the 109th overall pick in Saturday’s fourth round.

Ta’amu was asked how his pass rush is.

“Man, my pass-rush is amazing,” Ta’amu said.

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Former running backs Greg Lewis (1987-90) of Washington and Clarence Williams (1962-64) of Washington State are among 76 nominees on the 2012 Football Bowl Subdivision ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. The class of inductees will be announced May 15 and formally inducted during a ceremony in New York Dec. 4.

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The autumn roars following touchdowns have been replaced by the rumble of dump trucks and whir of cranes.

The $250 million renovation of Husky Stadium has reached the end of the first quarter. According to Washington athletic director Scott Woodward, the news is very good.

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Three times per week for the next four weeks, the University of Washington football team will engage in spring practice with an overriding emphasis on improving what was, in 2011, one of the worst defensive units ever foisted upon a paying public. The practice sessions conclude April 28 with the annual spring game, this year at CenturyLink Field.

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Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian expressed understandable happiness over his latest crop of recruits which, by all accounts, is the best, in quality and depth, of the three classes he has brought to UW. Rivals.com, one of the major rating services, ranked Sarkisian's 2012 class 20th nationally.

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College football's letter of intent day is typically so full of compost that only farmers with large trucks should be present to load up the rhetoric and the results.

As nearly everyone with the common sense any deity gives to fenceposts knows, recruiting is the lifeblood of big-time college sports, but the public information around it is rich with guesswork, hyperbole and irrelevance.

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Boosted by a spate of eleventh-hour commitments, which offset a handful of late defections, University of Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian announced a full class of 25 new recruits, headlined by a pair of top-rated quarterbacks, Jeff Lindquist of Mercer Island and Cyler Miles of Mullen High in Denver, and Shaquille Thompson, top-rated safety in the nation.

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